diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/model/helpers.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/model/helpers.ts
index 994b3ff..0afe6e9 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/model/helpers.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/model/helpers.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ export var resourceKindToCollectionName = {
 };
 
 export var resourceKindToOpenShiftConsoleCollectionName = {
-  "DeploymentConfig": "dc",
   "BuildConfig": "pipelines",
+  "DeploymentConfig": "dc",
+  "ReplicationController": "rc",
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/model/kubernetesresource.model.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/model/kubernetesresource.model.ts
index 32912cf..f0a07bd 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/model/kubernetesresource.model.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/model/kubernetesresource.model.ts
@@ -52,10 +52,17 @@ export class KubernetesResource implements BaseEntity {
     this.labels = metadata.labels || new Map<string, string>();
     this.annotations = metadata.annotations || new Map<string, string>();
     this.version = this.labels["version"] || "";
-    this.icon = this.annotations['fabric8.io/iconUrl'] || this.defaultIconUrl();
+
+    // for Replicas we need to also look in the spec.template.metadata.annotations
+    let spec = resource.spec || {};
+    let template = spec.template || {};
+    let templateMetadata = template.metadata || {};
+    let templateAnnotations = templateMetadata.annotations || new Map<string, string>();
+
+    this.icon = this.annotations['fabric8.io/iconUrl'] || templateAnnotations['fabric8.io/iconUrl'] || this.defaultIconUrl();
 
     // TODO any other annotations we should look for?
-    this.description = this.annotations['description'] || '';
+    this.description = this.annotations['description'] || templateAnnotations['description'] || '';
 
     this.openShiftConsoleUrl = openShiftBrowseResourceUrl(this, currentOAuthConfig());
   }
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/service/devnamespace.scope.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/service/devnamespace.scope.ts
index dc4a92e..3e5a2b2 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/service/devnamespace.scope.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/service/devnamespace.scope.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ export class DevNamespaceScope extends NamespaceScope {
   }
 
   protected getNamespace(params) {
-    return params['space'] || params['namespace'] || this.defaultNamespace();
+    return params['space'] || this.getRouteParams('space') ||
+      params['namespace'] || this.getRouteParams('namespace');
+  }
+
+
+  currentNamespace(): any {
+    return this.findParamsFor(this.router.routerState.snapshot.root, "space") || super.currentNamespace();
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespace.scope.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespace.scope.ts
index 9bdcee6..669f770 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespace.scope.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespace.scope.ts
@@ -1,49 +1,58 @@
-import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
-import { ActivatedRoute, Router, NavigationEnd } from "@angular/router";
-import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
-import { merge } from 'lodash';
+import {Injectable} from "@angular/core";
+import {ActivatedRoute, Router, NavigationEnd} from "@angular/router";
+import {Observable} from "rxjs";
 
 @Injectable()
 export class NamespaceScope {
   public namespace: Observable<string>;
 
-  constructor(private activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute, private router: Router) {
+  constructor(protected activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute, protected router: Router) {
     this.namespace = this.router.events
       .filter(event => event instanceof NavigationEnd)
       .map(() => this.activatedRoute)
-      .map(route => {
-        while (route.firstChild) route = route.firstChild;
-        return route;
-      })
+      .map(
+        route => {
+          while (route.firstChild) route = route.firstChild;
+          return route;
+        })
       .filter(route => route.outlet === 'primary')
-      .mergeMap(route => route.params).map(params => this.getNamespace(params)).distinctUntilChanged();
+      .mergeMap(route => route.params).map(params => this.getNamespace(params)).filter(n => n).distinctUntilChanged();
   }
 
   protected getNamespace(params) {
-    return this.getRouteParams()['namespace'] || this.defaultNamespace();
+    return params['namespace'] || this.getRouteParams('namespace');
   }
 
-  defaultNamespace(): string {
-    // TODO use some other mechanism to return the default?
-    return 'default';
-  }
-
-  private getRouteParams(): any {
+  protected getRouteParams(key): any {
     if (
       this.router &&
       this.router.routerState &&
       this.router.routerState.snapshot &&
       this.router.routerState.snapshot.root
     ) {
-      let firstChild = this.router.routerState.snapshot.root.firstChild;
-      let res = {};
-      while (firstChild) {
-        res = merge(res, firstChild.params);
-        firstChild = firstChild.firstChild;
+      return this.findParamsFor(this.router.routerState.snapshot.root, key);
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  protected findParamsFor(route, key): any {
+    let children = route.children;
+    for (let child of children) {
+      let params = child.params;
+      if (params) {
+        let answer = params[key];
+        if (!answer) {
+          answer = this.findParamsFor(child, key);
+        }
+        if (answer) {
+          return answer;
+        }
       }
-      return res;
     }
     return null;
   }
 
+  currentNamespace() {
+    return this.findParamsFor(this.router.routerState.snapshot.root, "namespace");
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespaced.resource.service.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespaced.resource.service.ts
index ead36d3..40983dc 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespaced.resource.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/service/namespaced.resource.service.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export abstract class NamespacedResourceService<T extends KubernetesResource, L
     private urlPrefix: string = '/api/v1/namespaces/',
   ) {
     super(kubernetesRestangular, watcherFactory);
-    this.namespace = namespaceScope.defaultNamespace();
+    this.namespace = namespaceScope.currentNamespace();
 
     if (this.namespaceScope) {
       this.namespaceSubscription = this.namespaceScope.namespace.subscribe(
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export abstract class NamespacedResourceService<T extends KubernetesResource, L
   }
 
   set namespace(namespace: string) {
-    if (namespace != this._namespace) {
+    if (namespace && namespace != this._namespace) {
       this._namespace = namespace;
       this._serviceUrl = null;
       this.onNamespaceChanged();
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list-page/list-page.environment.component.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list-page/list-page.environment.component.ts
index ca29f55..6ce18c7 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list-page/list-page.environment.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list-page/list-page.environment.component.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {pathJoin} from "../../../model/utils";
 import {ReplicationControllerService} from "../../../service/replicationcontroller.service";
 import {RouteService} from "../../../service/route.service";
 import {AbstractWatchComponent} from "../../../support/abstract-watch.component";
+import {currentOAuthConfig} from "../../../store/oauth-config-store";
 
 
 export let KINDS: Kind[] = [
@@ -246,6 +247,12 @@ export class EnvironmentListPageComponent extends AbstractWatchComponent impleme
 
 export function environmentOpenShiftConoleUrl(environment: Environment): string {
   let openshiftConsoleUrl = process.env.OPENSHIFT_CONSOLE_URL;
+  if (!openshiftConsoleUrl) {
+    let config = currentOAuthConfig();
+    if (config != null) {
+      openshiftConsoleUrl = config.openshiftConsoleUrl;
+    }
+  }
   let namespace = environment.namespaceName;
   if (namespace) {
     return pathJoin(openshiftConsoleUrl, "/project", namespace, "/overview")
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list/list.environment.component.html b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list/list.environment.component.html
index 657e9e8..ff4b299 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list/list.environment.component.html
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/environment/list/list.environment.component.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         <div class="col-md-4">
           <h2 *ngIf="!e.openshiftConsoleUrl">{{e.environment.name}}</h2>
           <h2 *ngIf="e.openshiftConsoleUrl">
-            <a [href]="e.openshiftConsoleUrl" title="View this environment in the OpenShift console">
+            <a [href]="e.openshiftConsoleUrl" target="openshift" title="View this environment in the OpenShift console">
               {{e.environment.name}}
             </a>
           </h2>
diff --git a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/replicaset/view-wrapper/view-wrapper.replicaset.component.ts b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/replicaset/view-wrapper/view-wrapper.replicaset.component.ts
index 6e94cf0..088994d 100644
--- a/src/app/kubernetes/ui/replicaset/view-wrapper/view-wrapper.replicaset.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/kubernetes/ui/replicaset/view-wrapper/view-wrapper.replicaset.component.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import {Component, OnInit} from "@angular/core";
 import {Observable} from "rxjs/Observable";
 import {ReplicaSet} from "../../../model/replicaset.model";
-import {ReplicaSetStore} from "../../../store/replicaset.store";
 import {AbstractViewWrapperComponent} from "../../../support/abstract-viewwrapper-component";
 import {ActivatedRoute} from "@angular/router";
+import {CompositeReplicaSetStore} from "../../../store/compositedreplicaset.store";
 
 @Component({
   selector: 'fabric8-replicaset-view-wrapper',
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import {ActivatedRoute} from "@angular/router";
 export class ReplicaSetViewWrapperComponent extends AbstractViewWrapperComponent implements OnInit {
   replicaset: Observable<ReplicaSet>;
 
-  constructor(private store: ReplicaSetStore, route: ActivatedRoute) {
+  constructor(private store: CompositeReplicaSetStore, route: ActivatedRoute) {
     super(route);
   }