drawing area resizes when rulers are added or removed

[Deborah Swayne <dfs research att com>]

I've got a window containing a menubar and a drawing area.
Sometimes it has axes -- which are gtk_ext_{v,h}rulers.
The containers in use are a vbox and a table.

The size of the window is based on the size of the drawing
area, which is set using gtk_drawing_area_size().

If a user reduces the size of the window, and then adds or
removes the axes, the window suddenly resumes its original
size, as set by gtk_drawing_area_size().  This is pretty  
unfriendly behavior, of course.

This does not happen if the user increases the size of the
window.

Any thoughts?

Debby

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