diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76b0ee19b7..5681bf7db2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Jul 12 00:44:57 MEST 1998 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/session.c: disabled setting the size of the dialogs since
+	lewing pointed out that you can't make them smaller any more :-(
+
 Sun Jul 12 00:13:02 MEST 1998 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* gimprc.in
diff --git a/app/gui/session.c b/app/gui/session.c
index 016f7f209e..f6cdc4ca8d 100644
--- a/app/gui/session.c
+++ b/app/gui/session.c
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ session_set_window_geometry (GtkWidget   *window,
   
   gtk_widget_set_uposition (window, info->x, info->y);
   
+  /* It seems that usizing the dialogs is a bad thing, because you can't
+     make them smaller then. Until a better solution is found, we don't set
+     the size ... 
+  */
+  set_size = FALSE;
+
   if ( (set_size) && (info->width > 0) && (info->height > 0) )
     gtk_widget_set_usize (window, info->width, info->height);
 }
diff --git a/app/session.c b/app/session.c
index 016f7f209e..f6cdc4ca8d 100644
--- a/app/session.c
+++ b/app/session.c
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ session_set_window_geometry (GtkWidget   *window,
   
   gtk_widget_set_uposition (window, info->x, info->y);
   
+  /* It seems that usizing the dialogs is a bad thing, because you can't
+     make them smaller then. Until a better solution is found, we don't set
+     the size ... 
+  */
+  set_size = FALSE;
+
   if ( (set_size) && (info->width > 0) && (info->height > 0) )
     gtk_widget_set_usize (window, info->width, info->height);
 }