display.DarkTransparentStatusBar makes bottom menu overlap Android symbols

Dear Corona-community

what I’d like to do:

Set the top status bar background to transparent with dark symbols for battery, signal strength and stuff.

what I’ve done so far:

I use display.setStatusBar( display.DarkTransparentStatusBar )

what’s my problem?

my bottom menu now overlaps the Android symbols for “back”, “home” and “running programs”. See here: Top screenshot has “display.DarkStatusBar”, bottom screenshot has “display.DarkTransparentStatusBar”

To me this seems inconsistent. Is this expected behaviour?

Thanks