Not sure what it was doing there in the first place, but this extra widget added a resize handle in the middle of the widget, which was very odd and non-standard (and pretty useless, I think).
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@
</widget>
</item>
<item>
- <widget class="QStatusBar" name="statusbar"/>
- </item>
- <item>
<layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout">
<layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="topLayout">