SUMMARY

Currently, when you open kickoff by hitting the Meta key and start typing to search some application and the cursor is somewhere in the middle of the kickoff window and not moving, the following happens:

With the first entered letter, the search is started and the very first item is selected.
With the second letter and onward, the selection jumps to the position where cursor is located. 

This is somewhat unfriendly to keyboard users: Hit meta, type and press enter -- as in most cases the first item in the list is the desired one.

With the current workflow the above doesn't work well and I find myself often to open wrong applications or files.
The placed cursor is in general at some random position so that you get some kind of nondeterministic result every time you search.

I would expect the selection to differ from the first item only once the cursor is actually moved. I hope this makes sense. :)