Integrating the ES search into the Joomla Search area of a template?

Hi there, this is a question about the easysocial search. Currently it is built into the toolbar of easysocial and this is fine to an extent and becomes a bit confusing when in practice. I notice most templates released now including Stackideas wanderers and JA Intranet and FLY ESMaterial here for example http://cmsfly.com/easysocial/templates/fly-esmaterial all have the search in the top navigation where you would expect to have it and where its used as more of a navigation tool to find people and groups and topics on sites like facebook, twitter and so on. the issue is the search box there is a joomla search and not the easysocial search.

the notifications, email updates and friend requests in these templates all seem to integrate nicely in the top navigation but of course getting the search to work is the main piece of the navigation as having the joomla search in the top and then the ES search in the toolbar underneath is just very confusing currently.

Any tips on getting this to work nicely with say JA Intranet here for example which is a popular one? Any tips here would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance