-            wxLogDebug(wxT("setting min size to %d;%d"), sz.x, sz.y);
-
-            // set size hints
-            GdkGeometry     geom;
-
-            geom.min_width = sz.x;
-            geom.min_height = sz.y;
-
-            gtk_window_set_geometry_hints( GTK_WINDOW(top->m_widget),
-                                        (GtkWidget*) NULL,
-                                        &geom,
-                                        GDK_HINT_MIN_SIZE );
-            //gtk_window_set_default_size( GTK_WINDOW(top->m_widget), sz.x, sz.y );
-
-
-            /* I revert back to wxGTK's original behaviour. m_mainWidget holds the
-            * menubar, the toolbar and the client area, which is represented by
-            * m_wxwindow.
-            * this hurts in the eye, but I don't want to call SetSize()
-            * because I don't want to call any non-native functions here. */
-
-            top->m_width = sz.x;
-            top->m_height = sz.y;
-
-            int client_x = top->m_miniEdge;
-            int client_y = top->m_miniEdge + top->m_miniTitle;
-            int client_w = top->m_width - 2*top->m_miniEdge;
-            int client_h = top->m_height - 2*top->m_miniEdge - top->m_miniTitle;
-            if (client_w < 0)
-                client_w = 0;
-            if (client_h < 0)
-                client_h = 0;
-
-            // Let the parent perform the resize
-            gtk_pizza_set_size( GTK_PIZZA(top->m_mainWidget),
-                                top->m_wxwindow,
-                                client_x, client_y, client_w, client_h );
-
-            gtk_widget_set_size_request( top->m_wxwindow, sz.x, sz.y );
-
+            // 3) MAGIC HACK: if you ever used GtkExpander in a GTK+ program
+            //    you know that this magic call is required to make it possible
+            //    to shrink the top level window in the expanded->collapsed
+            //    transition.  This may be sometimes undesired but *is*
+            //    necessary and if you look carefully, all GTK+ programs using
+            //    GtkExpander perform this trick (e.g. the standard "open file"
+            //    dialog of GTK+>=2.4 is not resizeable when the expander is
+            //    collapsed!)
+            gtk_window_set_resizable (GTK_WINDOW (top->m_widget), p->IsExpanded());
+
+            // 4) set size hints
+            top->SetMinClientSize(sz);
+
+            // 5) set size
+            top->SetClientSize(sz);