diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
index 82832b17e..96a2ed415 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
         <file>images/btn_27_hover.png</file>
         <file>images/btn_blue.png</file>
         <file>images/btn_blue_hover.png</file>
+        <file>images/btn_green.png</file>
+        <file>images/btn_green_hover.png</file>
+        <file>images/btn_green_pressed.png</file>
         <file>images/connect_established.png</file>
         <file>images/connect_established_low.png</file>
         <file>images/connect_creating.png</file>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green.png b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a0776989
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diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green_hover.png b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green_hover.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ecd07b34
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diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green_pressed.png b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/btn_green_pressed.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcce25d7a
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diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/qss/stylesheet/Standard.qss b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/qss/stylesheet/Standard.qss
index 10b50daf3..92787f7f0 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/qss/stylesheet/Standard.qss
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/qss/stylesheet/Standard.qss
@@ -184,6 +184,25 @@ ChatWidget QFrame#infoFrame {
 	background-color: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 #FFFFD7, stop:1 #FFFFB2);
 }
 
+ChatWidget QPushButton#sendButton {
+	border-image: url(:/images/btn_green.png) 4;
+	border-width: 4;
+	padding: 0px 6px;
+	font-size: 14px;
+	font: bold;
+	color: white;
+}
+
+ChatWidget QPushButton#sendButton:hover {
+	border-image: url(:/images/btn_green_hover.png) 4;
+}
+
+ChatWidget QPushButton#sendButton:pressed {
+	border-image: url(:/images/btn_green_pressed.png) 4;
+
+
+}
+
 /* Messages */
 
 MessageComposer > QToolBar#toolBar  {