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applets/kicker: actually select delegate on arrow

Christoph Wolk requested to merge cwo/plasma-desktop:kicker_focus_new into master

When the user presses an arrow key from the search field, the selection is moved to the second or final entry in the list, depending on the key pressed. Then focus is passed to the column. This doesn't work properly though, as the actual keyboard focus does not end up on the delegate yet, only after the user presses another arrow. If the user tries to activate the item highlighted after a single key press, the Return press falls back to the search field which always activates the first entry in the list.

Instead, expose the actual highlighted list item, then focus it directly instead of focusing the column.

BUG: 499971 FIXED-IN: 6.3.1

Testing: Start a new kicker, search for "ste" (I get System Monitor, then System Settings), press arrow down -> second entry is highlighted, but pressing Return still activates the first (without patch) actually the selected item (with patch)

Once focus properly lands on a delegate by arrowing around within the list, it works properly, only the second and final entry are affected if you access them with a single arrow key press.

[sorry for the dupe, the other one I pushed to the wrong branch]

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