FWIW, I nearly commented on one of your early blog posts. I wanted to suggest a combobox to:

• indicate the possibility to make a selection (which a link clearly fails at)
• solve the issue of having to move the mouse to a completely different location (usability problem)

You got the (obvious) combobox idea yourself meanwhile, but at least have my +1 here ;)

If the the combobox sticks out too much visually, try the QML equivalent of setFrame(false) (did not test yet, though).