Remapping rqt published topics

I am developing an rqt GUI plugin to set some values in another node, but the rqt plugins seem to always place a namespace in front of my desired published topic name. For example, my rqt plugin is called "rqt_blueview," and I declare a published topic in the rqt plugin like this... this->max_range_pub_ = getNodeHandle().advertise("sonar_max_range", 1); However, the actual topic is published with the following topic name: /rqt_blueview/sonar_max_range I want to publish to `/sonar_max_range` I tried to remap the topic, but I can't seem to get it to work. I tried the following in a launch file: and I tried placing the remap tag inside the tags as well, but with no results. I think this has something to do with how the rqt plugin is loaded into the rqt higher-level Qt window. I was able to remap the subscribed topic `/sonar_max_range` to `/rqt_blueview/sonar_max_range` on the normal C++ ROS node subscribed side of the topic, but this naming convention doesn't seem natural to me. Is there a best practice for naming topics when using rqt plugins? I won't want a launch file remapping the rqt GUI plugins since the idea is to open rqt and then "add" the other rqt plugins to the main window. Thanks.