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Improve simple HdyPreferenceWindow UX

I'm just porting Geary's prefs dialog to HdyPreferenceWindow, which having only 4 prefs at the moment is super simple. I'd like to leverage handy's fine widgets as much as possible so I'm using HdyPreferenceWindow, with a HdyPreferencePage, with a HdyPreferenceGroup, with the four rows.

This works fine, but two things clutter this up a bit:

  1. The HdyPreferencesGroup must have a title and a description otherwise it won't be added properly to the page, which is a) overkill here, b) more work for translators and c) the single title needlessly clutters the UI.
  2. The search button is also overkill, it would be useful if it was only shown and enabled if there were a non-trivial number of pages/groups/rows, or at least there was a manual way to disable it

Thoughts?

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