diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
index 1268c6d0a..b4b9c39d9 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
      </property>
      <property name="styleSheet">
       <string notr="true">QFrame#frame{border: 3px solid #D3D3D3;
-background: white;
+background-color: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, 
+stop:0 #FFFFFF, stop:1 #F2F2F2);;
 border-radius: 10px;}</string>
      </property>
      <property name="frameShape">
@@ -244,6 +245,8 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
   <include location="../images.qrc"/>
   <include location="../images.qrc"/>
   <include location="../images.qrc"/>
+  <include location="../images.qrc"/>
+  <include location="../images.qrc"/>
  </resources>
  <connections/>
 </ui>