maemo.org - Talk - Development: using the native applications and contacts menus

Dear fellow programmers,

Is there a way to use the native Maemo 5 menu's for all installed applications and contacts? For example, when developing a Maemo address book application, it might be intuitive to the user that the suggested contacts are shown in the standard contact list menu.

Is it possible using the C++ libraries Hildon and/or Qt(Mobility) to do this? I would like to be able to program something like the (sub-optimal) code below:

Code:

MainMenu * const menu = GetMainMenuInSomeWay();

for (int i=0; i!=menu->CountItems(); ++i)

{

  if ( (menu->GetItems()[i].IsContact() 

    && menu->GetItems()[i].LivesIn("Groningen") )

    || ( menu->GetItems()[i].IsApplication()

    && me->GetItems()[i].GetProgrammer("Bilderbikkel") ) )

  {

    menu->GetItems()[i].Show();

  }

  else

  {

    menu->GetItems()[i].Hide();

  }

}

menu->Show();

Perhaps this is not possible at all (AFAIK one cannot use the classes used for the Mac/Windows/others main menu's, nor make a copy that can be manipulated) or this is so obvious to do so that nobody mentions it on this internet (up until this post).

Technical details:
- Maemo version: Maemo 5
- Target phone: Nokia N900
- Programming language: C++
- Development platform: Ubuntu
- IDE: Qt Creator
- Compiler: G++ from GCC

I hope one of you can help me out, Bilderbikkel