diff --git a/development/scons/scons_manifest.py b/development/scons/scons_manifest.py
index 8cbaad8e21..81e0ca3927 100644
--- a/development/scons/scons_manifest.py
+++ b/development/scons/scons_manifest.py
@@ -1398,6 +1398,7 @@ lib_images_files = Split('''
     font-sans.png
     footnote-insert.png
     href-insert.png
+    hidetab.png
     index-insert.png
     label-insert.png
     layout-document.png
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index 06e360311a..94e11a1a86 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ dist_images_DATA = \
 	images/font-sans.png \
 	images/footnote-insert.png \
 	images/href-insert.png \
+	images/hidetab.png \
 	images/index-insert.png \
 	images/label-insert.png \
 	images/layout.png \
diff --git a/lib/images/hidetab.png b/lib/images/hidetab.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16f0356655
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/images/hidetab.png differ
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
index dc004cd536..cbc752de58 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
@@ -1065,12 +1065,11 @@ TabWorkArea::TabWorkArea(QWidget * parent) : QTabWidget(parent)
 
 	QToolButton * closeTabButton = new QToolButton(this);
     closeTabButton->setPalette(pal);
-	// FIXME: we need another icon for this.
-	closeTabButton->setIcon(QIcon(":/images/closetab.png"));
-	closeTabButton->setText("Minimize Buffer");
+	closeTabButton->setIcon(QIcon(":/images/hidetab.png"));
+	closeTabButton->setText("Hide tab");
 	closeTabButton->setAutoRaise(true);
 	closeTabButton->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
-	closeTabButton->setToolTip(tr("Close tab"));
+	closeTabButton->setToolTip(tr("Hide tab"));
 	closeTabButton->setEnabled(true);
 	QObject::connect(closeTabButton, SIGNAL(clicked()),
 		this, SLOT(closeCurrentTab()));