We've had some great times together, but lately I've been feeling more and more frustrated by our relationship. I don't seem to understand you the way I think I should, and you no longer seem to understand me the way I remember. Why, just last week I found myself walking the entire widget tree and calling setMinSize() on everything just to get the layout to adjust itself correctly after a change. Let's face it, that's not healthy. Has it always been like this between us? A battle of odd hacks and workarounds? Maybe it's me. After all, we've spent many years together and I don't remember being anything but happy. Maybe my needs have changed. Maybe I never took the time to really understand you in the way that you deserve. But you've changed as well. I remember our carefree early days using wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE to get layouts behaving just so, but now it's a no-op . You say it has become the default behaviour? Then why am I walking widget trees and adjusting the min size by hand? Whatever the cause, it's clear that there's something wrong between us. wxPython, there's no point in beating around the bush -- I've found someone else . Someone who understands my needs, and who makes herself easy to understand in return. She automatically resizes her layout managers when I change the widgets inside them; better yet, she does it recursively. She double-buffers all drawing by default, so that I don't have to resort