The hildon status menu doesn't need to be duplicated. I decided to do that so that I implement my idea of navigation. When there is a first robust version, I am thinking of creating an alternative with the native hildon title bar and the address bar on the bottom just like MicroB. The only obstacle I can think of is that the main application menu will have to be re-implemented in QtWidget instead of QML but that's not a hard thing to do. The alternative UI's can be either decided on runtime or compile time.