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(Get the code!)
I didn't realise until I read the comment from a-j-buxton that I too thought the enter key was just broken, which is why I use the mouse to start applications.
The length of time search takes is irrelevant. The result the user was looking for has already been found and is displayed on screen as the first hit. The user should be able to choose this without having to wait for a bunch of erroneous search results to appear. Indeed the user _can_ choose it with the mouse, but this means taking the hand off the keyboard and moving it to the mouse to click which is faster than it takes the search to finish in some cases.
The user I recorded the video as on this bug report was a 'clean' user with almost no documents in the home directory. The search returns after a very short period. However when I logon as "me" on the same machine it's considerably worse.
It takes around 5-6 seconds before I can actually press enter after typing "gedit" into the dash. Adding 5 seconds to every application start makes this brand new Thinkpad X220 ( Core i7 / 8GB / 240GB (500MB/s SSD) ) system feel like a Pentium III.