diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
index 4f11e07bd..a0400fceb 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <QDateTime>
 #include <QHeaderView>
 #include <QTimer>
+#include <QMessageBox>
 
 /* Images for context menu icons */
 #define IMAGE_MESSAGE        ":/images/folder-draft.png"
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ ForumsDialog::ForumsDialog(QWidget *parent)
 
   connect(ui.newForumButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(newforum()));
   connect(ui.newmessageButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(createmessage()));
-
+  connect(ui.newthreadButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(showthread()));
 
   connect( ui.forumTreeWidget, SIGNAL( currentItemChanged ( QTreeWidgetItem *, QTreeWidgetItem *) ), this,
   	SLOT( changedForum( QTreeWidgetItem *, QTreeWidgetItem * ) ) );
@@ -830,10 +831,12 @@ void ForumsDialog::showthread()
 {
 	if (mCurrForumId == "")
 	{
+	  QMessageBox::information(this, tr("RetroShare"),tr("No Forum Selected!"));
 		return;
 	}
 
 	CreateForumMsg *cfm = new CreateForumMsg(mCurrForumId, "");
+	cfm->setWindowTitle(tr("Start New Thread"));
 	cfm->show();
 }
 
@@ -878,10 +881,3 @@ static 	ForumDisplay *fui = new ForumDisplay();
 }
 
 
-
-
-
-	
-
-
-
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
index 7b27cb283..04a3ae204 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ class ForumsDialog : public MainPage
 public:
   ForumsDialog(QWidget *parent = 0);
 
- void insertForums();
- void insertPost();
+  void insertForums();
+  void insertPost();
 
 private slots:
 
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ private slots:
 
   void newforum();
 
-void checkUpdate();
+  void checkUpdate();
 
-void changedForum( QTreeWidgetItem *curr, QTreeWidgetItem *prev );
-void changedThread( QTreeWidgetItem *curr, QTreeWidgetItem *prev );
-void changedThread2();
+  void changedForum( QTreeWidgetItem *curr, QTreeWidgetItem *prev );
+  void changedThread( QTreeWidgetItem *curr, QTreeWidgetItem *prev );
+  void changedThread2();
 
-void changeBox( int newrow );
-void updateMessages ( QTreeWidgetItem * item, int column );
+  void changeBox( int newrow );
+  void updateMessages ( QTreeWidgetItem * item, int column );
 
   void newmessage();
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
index 68ff2da4c..a9d008fba 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
@@ -570,9 +570,13 @@
         <item>
          <layout class="QHBoxLayout">
           <item>
-           <widget class="QPushButton" name="newmessageButton">
+           <widget class="QPushButton" name="newthreadButton">
             <property name="toolTip">
-             <string>New Message</string>
+             <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
+&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
+p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
+&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Arial'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
+&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;Start new Thread for Selected Forum&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
             </property>
             <property name="text">
              <string/>
@@ -583,6 +587,24 @@
             </property>
            </widget>
           </item>
+          <item>
+           <widget class="QPushButton" name="newmessageButton">
+            <property name="toolTip">
+             <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
+&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
+p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
+&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Arial'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
+&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;Reply Message&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+            </property>
+            <property name="text">
+             <string/>
+            </property>
+            <property name="icon">
+             <iconset resource="images.qrc">
+              <normaloff>:/images/mail_reply.png</normaloff>:/images/mail_reply.png</iconset>
+            </property>
+           </widget>
+          </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QLabel" name="label_17">
             <property name="sizePolicy">