I agree, there was a point when it was a bug and pressing down once did
not indicate where the cursor is, but for a while now it has highlighted
the "Applications" bar.

The problem with your mockup comes in when you have multiple programs
found that require to be expanded. You can't have the applications
expand where files are, it must be kept separate.

I have a very simple solution to this problem.

Navigate application and file icons with the arrow keys and navigate to
the title bars with TAB. It's already cycling through them when you hit
tab, so why not just disable arrow keys from navigating to the title
bars?

So type f in the dash, whole bunch of apps, files and music comes up.
one arrow key down takes you to the first found application, another
down arrow takes you to the first found file, next down arrow takes you
to the first found song.

Similarly, typing f in the dash and then hitting TAB takes you to the
applications title bar, pressing enter reveals more options, hitting
arrow down takes you to the expanded list of found apps.

Hitting tab again takes you to Files and again takes you to Music

So NEVER navigate title bars with arrows and only navigate them with
tab.

Solves all issues as far as I can see and reduces tapping of keys.

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  When navigating Dash by keyboard, sometimes titles with no function
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