diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
index 9cdde3d73..7e8527273 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
     <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout_3">
      <item row="0" column="0">
       <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout">
+       <property name="spacing">
+        <number>0</number>
+       </property>
        <item row="0" column="0">
         <widget class="QLabel" name="iconLabel">
          <property name="minimumSize">
@@ -84,6 +87,10 @@
            <height>64</height>
           </size>
          </property>
+         <property name="styleSheet">
+          <string notr="true"> background-color: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1,
+                                       stop:0 #F2F2F2, stop:1 #E6E6E6);</string>
+         </property>
          <property name="text">
           <string/>
          </property>
@@ -100,6 +107,10 @@
            <bold>true</bold>
           </font>
          </property>
+         <property name="styleSheet">
+          <string notr="true"> background-color: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1,
+                                       stop:0 #F2F2F2, stop:1 #E6E6E6);</string>
+         </property>
          <property name="text">
           <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;