diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
index afec8f03e..d5c5df2df 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.cpp
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ ForumsDialog::ForumsDialog(QWidget *parent)
 
 
 
-    	/* Set header resize modes and initial section sizes */
+   /* Set header resize modes and initial section sizes */
 	QHeaderView * ftheader = ui.forumTreeWidget->header () ;
 	ftheader->setResizeMode (0, QHeaderView::Interactive);
     
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ ForumsDialog::ForumsDialog(QWidget *parent)
 	ttheader->resizeSection ( 0, 170 );
 	ttheader->resizeSection ( 1, 170 );
 
+
+   mForumNameFont = QFont("MS SANS SERIF", 12);
+   ui.forumName->setFont(mForumNameFont);
   
 
   /* Hide platform specific features */
@@ -658,10 +661,12 @@ void ForumsDialog::insertThreads()
 					if (flatView)
 					{
 						child = new QTreeWidgetItem(); 
+						ui.threadTreeWidget->setRootIsDecorated( false );
 					}
 					else
 					{
 						child = new QTreeWidgetItem(parent);
+						ui.threadTreeWidget->setRootIsDecorated( true );
 					}
 		
 					{
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
index 89dd24496..a5abde3b3 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.h
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ private:
   std::string mCurrForumId;
   std::string mCurrThreadId;
   std::string mCurrPostId;
+  
+  QFont mForumNameFont;
 
   /** Qt Designer generated object */
   Ui::ForumsDialog ui;
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
index f7d82c108..68ff2da4c 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
@@ -593,14 +593,14 @@
             </property>
             <property name="minimumSize">
              <size>
-              <width>60</width>
-              <height>10</height>
+              <width>0</width>
+              <height>0</height>
              </size>
             </property>
             <property name="maximumSize">
              <size>
               <width>16777215</width>
-              <height>10</height>
+              <height>16777215</height>
              </size>
             </property>
             <property name="font">
@@ -611,7 +611,11 @@
              </font>
             </property>
             <property name="text">
-             <string>Forum Name</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:10pt; font-weight:600; 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;Forum:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
             </property>
            </widget>
           </item>
@@ -626,15 +630,20 @@
             <property name="minimumSize">
              <size>
               <width>0</width>
-              <height>10</height>
+              <height>0</height>
              </size>
             </property>
             <property name="maximumSize">
              <size>
               <width>16777215</width>
-              <height>10</height>
+              <height>1677215</height>
              </size>
             </property>
+            <property name="styleSheet">
+             <string notr="true">QLabel{border: 2px solid grey;
+border-radius: 10px;
+background: white;}</string>
+            </property>
             <property name="text">
              <string/>
             </property>
@@ -803,6 +812,9 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
          <pointsize>9</pointsize>
         </font>
        </property>
+       <property name="openExternalLinks">
+        <bool>false</bool>
+       </property>
       </widget>
      </widget>
     </widget>