diff --git a/gui/gui.qrc b/gui/gui.qrc
index f3f79cc9e..9a102ef04 100644
--- a/gui/gui.qrc
+++ b/gui/gui.qrc
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     <file>images/view-refresh.png</file>
     <file>images/showerrors.png</file>
     <file>images/showstylewarnings.png</file>
+    <file>images/openproject.png</file>
 
     <file alias="COPYING">../COPYING</file>
     <file alias="AUTHORS">../AUTHORS</file>
diff --git a/gui/images/openproject.png b/gui/images/openproject.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..472484f11
Binary files /dev/null and b/gui/images/openproject.png differ
diff --git a/gui/main.ui b/gui/main.ui
index f0de6a8fa..01ef7fa14 100644
--- a/gui/main.ui
+++ b/gui/main.ui
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@
     <bool>false</bool>
    </attribute>
    <addaction name="mActionCheckDirectory"/>
+   <addaction name="mActionOpenProjectFile"/>
    <addaction name="mActionSave"/>
    <addaction name="mActionRecheck"/>
    <addaction name="mActionStop"/>
@@ -361,6 +362,10 @@
    </property>
   </action>
   <action name="mActionOpenProjectFile">
+   <property name="icon">
+    <iconset resource="gui.qrc">
+     <normaloff>:/images/openproject.png</normaloff>:/images/openproject.png</iconset>
+   </property>
    <property name="text">
     <string>Open P&amp;roject File...</string>
    </property>