diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
index 1e0336640..c06e5545c 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ForumsDialog.ui
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
       </property>
       <widget class="QWidget" name="layoutWidget">
        <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout_2">
-        <item row="0" column="0">
+        <item row="1" column="0">
          <layout class="QHBoxLayout">
           <item>
            <widget class="QLabel" name="label_17">
@@ -866,90 +866,6 @@ background: white;}</string>
             </property>
            </widget>
           </item>
-          <item>
-           <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout">
-            <property name="spacing">
-             <number>1</number>
-            </property>
-            <item>
-             <widget class="QLineEdit" name="filterPatternLineEdit"/>
-            </item>
-            <item>
-             <widget class="QPushButton" name="clearButton">
-              <property name="minimumSize">
-               <size>
-                <width>16</width>
-                <height>16</height>
-               </size>
-              </property>
-              <property name="maximumSize">
-               <size>
-                <width>16</width>
-                <height>16</height>
-               </size>
-              </property>
-              <property name="font">
-               <font>
-                <family>MS Shell Dlg 2</family>
-               </font>
-              </property>
-              <property name="toolTip">
-               <string>Reset</string>
-              </property>
-              <property name="styleSheet">
-               <string notr="true">QPushButton
-{
- border-image: url(:/images/closenormal.png) 
-}
-                                
-QPushButton:hover 
-{
-border-image: url(:/images/closehover.png) 
-}
-                                
-QPushButton:pressed  {
-border-image: url(:/images/closepressed.png) 
-}</string>
-              </property>
-              <property name="text">
-               <string/>
-              </property>
-             </widget>
-            </item>
-            <item>
-             <widget class="QComboBox" name="filterColumnComboBox">
-              <property name="font">
-               <font>
-                <family>MS Shell Dlg 2</family>
-               </font>
-              </property>
-              <property name="currentIndex">
-               <number>1</number>
-              </property>
-              <item>
-               <property name="text">
-                <string>Date</string>
-               </property>
-              </item>
-              <item>
-               <property name="text">
-                <string>Title</string>
-               </property>
-              </item>
-              <item>
-               <property name="text">
-                <string>Author</string>
-               </property>
-              </item>
-              <item>
-               <property name="text">
-                <string>Content</string>
-               </property>
-              </item>
-             </widget>
-            </item>
-           </layout>
-          </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QComboBox" name="viewBox">
             <item>
@@ -971,7 +887,7 @@ border-image: url(:/images/closepressed.png)
           </item>
          </layout>
         </item>
-        <item row="1" column="0">
+        <item row="2" column="0">
          <widget class="QTreeWidget" name="threadTreeWidget">
           <property name="font">
            <font>
@@ -1006,7 +922,7 @@ border-image: url(:/images/closepressed.png)
           </column>
          </widget>
         </item>
-        <item row="2" column="0">
+        <item row="3" column="0">
          <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout">
           <item row="0" column="1">
            <widget class="QLabel" name="threadlabel">
@@ -1138,6 +1054,136 @@ background: white;}</string>
           </item>
          </layout>
         </item>
+        <item row="0" column="0">
+         <widget class="QFrame" name="frame_2">
+          <property name="minimumSize">
+           <size>
+            <width>0</width>
+            <height>32</height>
+           </size>
+          </property>
+          <property name="styleSheet">
+           <string notr="true"> QFrame#frame_2{
+background-color: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1,
+                                       stop:0 #FEFEFE, stop:1 #E8E8E8);
+
+border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;}</string>
+          </property>
+          <property name="frameShape">
+           <enum>QFrame::StyledPanel</enum>
+          </property>
+          <property name="frameShadow">
+           <enum>QFrame::Raised</enum>
+          </property>
+          <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout_5">
+           <property name="margin">
+            <number>2</number>
+           </property>
+           <item row="0" column="1">
+            <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout">
+             <property name="spacing">
+              <number>2</number>
+             </property>
+             <item>
+              <widget class="QLabel" name="label_3">
+               <property name="text">
+                <string/>
+               </property>
+               <property name="pixmap">
+                <pixmap resource="images.qrc">:/images/find-16.png</pixmap>
+               </property>
+              </widget>
+             </item>
+             <item>
+              <widget class="QLineEdit" name="filterPatternLineEdit">
+               <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:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:8.25pt; 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;&lt;span style=&quot; font-size:8pt;&quot;&gt;Search forums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+               </property>
+              </widget>
+             </item>
+             <item>
+              <widget class="QPushButton" name="clearButton">
+               <property name="minimumSize">
+                <size>
+                 <width>16</width>
+                 <height>16</height>
+                </size>
+               </property>
+               <property name="maximumSize">
+                <size>
+                 <width>16</width>
+                 <height>16</height>
+                </size>
+               </property>
+               <property name="font">
+                <font>
+                 <family>MS Shell Dlg 2</family>
+                </font>
+               </property>
+               <property name="toolTip">
+                <string>Reset</string>
+               </property>
+               <property name="styleSheet">
+                <string notr="true">QPushButton
+{
+ border-image: url(:/images/closenormal.png) 
+}
+                                
+QPushButton:hover 
+{
+border-image: url(:/images/closehover.png) 
+}
+                                
+QPushButton:pressed  {
+border-image: url(:/images/closepressed.png) 
+}</string>
+               </property>
+               <property name="text">
+                <string/>
+               </property>
+              </widget>
+             </item>
+            </layout>
+           </item>
+           <item row="0" column="2">
+            <widget class="QComboBox" name="filterColumnComboBox">
+             <property name="font">
+              <font>
+               <family>MS Shell Dlg 2</family>
+              </font>
+             </property>
+             <property name="currentIndex">
+              <number>1</number>
+             </property>
+             <item>
+              <property name="text">
+               <string>Date</string>
+              </property>
+             </item>
+             <item>
+              <property name="text">
+               <string>Title</string>
+              </property>
+             </item>
+             <item>
+              <property name="text">
+               <string>Author</string>
+              </property>
+             </item>
+             <item>
+              <property name="text">
+               <string>Content</string>
+              </property>
+             </item>
+            </widget>
+           </item>
+          </layout>
+         </widget>
+        </item>
        </layout>
       </widget>
       <widget class="QTextBrowser" name="postText">