Answer GNOME's Search panel, and pin the settings navigation wiring

GNOME's Search panel configures which applications provide results in gnome-shell's overview and which folders are indexed. gnome-shell does not run here, so reimplementing those switches would store preferences that change nothing. Under Panama searching is the launcher's job and Vicinae carries its own preferences, so the Applications page says where search lives and how to rebind the keys that open it, rather than offering settings that would be inert or duplicated. The nav contract is the more useful half. Adding a settings page means editing four files, and missing any one of them fails quietly in a different way: no sidebar row, a row that silently shows Home, a deep link that redirects to Home, or -- worst -- a missing qmldir entry, which makes the page "not a type" and takes the entire settings window down with it. Nothing at runtime cross-checks the four. Having just added four pages by hand, this checks them statically, and also fails on a page file that exists but is unreachable. Verified it catches a missing qmldir registration and a missing allow-list entry. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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@@ -142,6 +142,40 @@ SettingsPage {
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    }

+    // GNOME's Search panel, answered honestly.
+    //
+    // It configures which applications provide results in gnome-shell's
+    // overview and which folders are indexed. gnome-shell does not run here,
+    // so those settings would do nothing. Under Panama searching is the
+    // launcher's job, and Vicinae carries its own preferences -- reimplementing
+    // them here would give two places to change one thing.
+    SettingsCard {
+        title: "Search"
+        subtitle: "Applications, files, the calculator, clipboard history, emoji, and open windows are all searched from the launcher."
+
+        TextRow {
+            label: "Launcher"
+            detail: SystemSettings.vicinaeActive
+                ? "Running as a user service"
+                : "Not running — Super+Shift+R opens the fallback launcher"
+            value: "Vicinae"
+        }
+
+        TextRow {
+            label: "Open search"
+            detail: "Three keys open it, because Super+A and Super+R were GNOME's app grid and run dialog"
+            value: "Super+Space"
+        }
+
+        ActionRow {
+            label: "Change these shortcuts"
+            detail: "Every launcher chord is rebindable, including clipboard history and emoji"
+            action: "Open keyboard"
+            divider: false
+            onTriggered: ShellState.openSettings("shortcuts")
+        }
+    }
+
    SettingsCard {
        title: "User autostart"
        subtitle: "These desktop entries live in your user configuration. Select a row to toggle it."