diff --git a/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp b/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp
index 86127d87..f3328a08 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ void rwSettings(bool writing)
     SETTING_RW(prefs.respagesize, "/Recoll/prefs/reslist/pagelen", Int, 8);
     SETTING_RW(prefs.collapseDuplicates, 
 	       "/Recoll/prefs/reslist/collapseDuplicates", Bool, false);
+    SETTING_RW(prefs.showResultsAsTable, 
+	       "/Recoll/prefs/showResultsAsTable", Bool, false);
     SETTING_RW(prefs.maxhltextmbs, "/Recoll/prefs/preview/maxhltextmbs", Int, 3);
     SETTING_RW(prefs.qtermcolor, "/Recoll/prefs/qtermcolor", String, "blue");
     if (!writing && prefs.qtermcolor == "")
diff --git a/src/qtgui/guiutils.h b/src/qtgui/guiutils.h
index 6fd42652..d059e991 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/guiutils.h
+++ b/src/qtgui/guiutils.h
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ class PrefsPack {
     bool startWithAdvSearchOpen;
     bool previewHtml;
     bool collapseDuplicates;
+    bool showResultsAsTable;
+
     // Extra query indexes. This are stored in the history file, not qt prefs
     list<string> allExtraDbs;
     list<string> activeExtraDbs;
diff --git a/src/qtgui/images/table.png b/src/qtgui/images/table.png
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..de480f89
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/qtgui/images/table.png differ
diff --git a/src/qtgui/rclmain.ui b/src/qtgui/rclmain.ui
index 7de0e410..664e5df5 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/rclmain.ui
+++ b/src/qtgui/rclmain.ui
@@ -10,17 +10,32 @@
     <height>600</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
+  <property name="sizePolicy">
+   <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Minimum">
+    <horstretch>0</horstretch>
+    <verstretch>0</verstretch>
+   </sizepolicy>
+  </property>
   <property name="windowTitle">
    <string>Recoll</string>
   </property>
   <widget class="QWidget" name="centralwidget">
    <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout">
     <property name="spacing">
+     <number>0</number>
+    </property>
+    <property name="leftMargin">
+     <number>4</number>
+    </property>
+    <property name="topMargin">
      <number>2</number>
     </property>
-    <property name="margin">
+    <property name="rightMargin">
      <number>4</number>
     </property>
+    <property name="bottomMargin">
+     <number>2</number>
+    </property>
     <item>
      <widget class="SSearch" name="sSearch" native="true">
       <property name="sizePolicy">
@@ -34,7 +49,7 @@
     <item>
      <widget class="QGroupBox" name="catgBGRP">
       <property name="sizePolicy">
-       <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Fixed">
+       <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Maximum">
         <horstretch>0</horstretch>
         <verstretch>0</verstretch>
        </sizepolicy>
@@ -51,7 +66,7 @@
          <x>0</x>
          <y>0</y>
          <width>45</width>
-         <height>29</height>
+         <height>20</height>
         </rect>
        </property>
        <property name="text">
@@ -103,6 +118,8 @@
    <addaction name="separator"/>
    <addaction name="actionSortByDateAsc"/>
    <addaction name="actionSortByDateDesc"/>
+   <addaction name="separator"/>
+   <addaction name="actionShowResultsAsTable"/>
   </widget>
   <widget class="QMenuBar" name="MenuBar">
    <property name="geometry">
@@ -412,6 +429,21 @@
     <string>Show Query Details</string>
    </property>
   </action>
+  <action name="actionShowResultsAsTable">
+   <property name="checkable">
+    <bool>true</bool>
+   </property>
+   <property name="icon">
+    <iconset resource="recoll.qrc">
+     <normaloff>:/images/table.png</normaloff>:/images/table.png</iconset>
+   </property>
+   <property name="text">
+    <string>Show results as table</string>
+   </property>
+   <property name="toolTip">
+    <string>Show results as table</string>
+   </property>
+  </action>
  </widget>
  <layoutdefault spacing="2" margin="2"/>
  <pixmapfunction>qPixmapFromMimeSource</pixmapfunction>
diff --git a/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.cpp b/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.cpp
index f02b9bd6..2c2a91a6 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.cpp
@@ -195,8 +195,14 @@ void RclMain::init()
 	    actionSortByDateAsc->setChecked(true);
 	onSortCtlChanged();
     }
+    restable = new ResTable(this);
+    verticalLayout->insertWidget(2, restable);
+    actionShowResultsAsTable->setChecked(prefs.showResultsAsTable);
+    on_actionShowResultsAsTable_toggled(prefs.showResultsAsTable);
 
-    restable = new ResTable();
+    // Must not do this when restable is a child of rclmain
+    // sc = new QShortcut(quitKeySeq, restable);
+    // connect(sc, SIGNAL (activated()), this, SLOT (fileExit()));
 
     // A shortcut to get the focus back to the search entry. 
     QKeySequence seq("Ctrl+Shift+s");
@@ -237,6 +243,7 @@ void RclMain::init()
 	    this, SLOT(showUIPrefs()));
     connect(extIdxAction, SIGNAL(activated()), 
 	    this, SLOT(showExtIdxDialog()));
+	    
     if (prefs.catgToolBar && catgCMB)
 	connect(catgCMB, SIGNAL(activated(int)), 
 		this, SLOT(catgFilter(int)));
@@ -246,10 +253,6 @@ void RclMain::init()
 	    this, SLOT(showQueryDetails()));
     connect(periodictimer, SIGNAL(timeout()), 
 	    this, SLOT(periodic100()));
-
-    sc = new QShortcut(quitKeySeq, restable);
-    connect(sc, SIGNAL (activated()), 
-	    this, SLOT (fileExit()));
     connect(this, SIGNAL(docSourceChanged(RefCntr<DocSequence>)),
 	    restable, SLOT(setDocSource(RefCntr<DocSequence>)));
     connect(this, SIGNAL(searchReset()), 
@@ -309,7 +312,6 @@ void RclMain::init()
     // Start timer on a slow period (used for checking ^C). Will be
     // speeded up during indexing
     periodictimer->start(1000);
-    restable->show();
 }
 
 void RclMain::resultCount(int n)
@@ -886,13 +888,31 @@ void RclMain::onSortCtlChanged()
 void RclMain::onResTableSortBy(DocSeqSortSpec spec)
 {
     m_sortspecnochange = true;
-    actionSortByDateDesc->setChecked(false);
-    actionSortByDateAsc->setChecked(false);
+    if (spec.field.compare("mtime")) {
+	actionSortByDateDesc->setChecked(false);
+	actionSortByDateAsc->setChecked(false);
+    } else {
+	actionSortByDateDesc->setChecked(spec.desc);
+	actionSortByDateAsc->setChecked(!spec.desc);
+    }
     m_sortspecnochange = false;
     m_sortspec = spec;
     emit applyFiltSortData();
 }
 
+void RclMain::on_actionShowResultsAsTable_toggled(bool on)
+{
+    LOGDEB(("RclMain::on_actionShowResultsAsTable_toggled(%d)\n", int(on)));
+    prefs.showResultsAsTable = on;
+    if (on) {
+	restable->show();
+	reslist->hide();
+    } else {
+	restable->hide();
+	reslist->show();
+    }
+}
+
 void RclMain::on_actionSortByDateAsc_toggled(bool on)
 {
     LOGDEB(("RclMain::on_actionSortByDateAsc_toggled(%d)\n", int(on)));
diff --git a/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.h b/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.h
index 854029ca..e925d6bd 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.h
+++ b/src/qtgui/rclmain_w.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public slots:
     virtual void focusToSearch();
     virtual void on_actionSortByDateAsc_toggled(bool on);
     virtual void on_actionSortByDateDesc_toggled(bool on);
+    virtual void on_actionShowResultsAsTable_toggled(bool on);
     virtual void onResTableSortBy(DocSeqSortSpec);
     virtual void resultCount(int);
     virtual void showQueryDetails();
diff --git a/src/qtgui/recoll.qrc b/src/qtgui/recoll.qrc
index 0b92ae56..b55ba775 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/recoll.qrc
+++ b/src/qtgui/recoll.qrc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   <file>images/firstpage.png</file>
   <file>images/sortparms.png</file>
   <file>images/spell.png</file>
+  <file>images/table.png</file>
   <file>images/up.png</file>
   <file>images/down.png</file>
  </qresource>