diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/ViewSourceUi.ui b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/ViewSourceUi.ui
index 1d6f2abf1c..c18b284cb9 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/ViewSourceUi.ui
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/ViewSourceUi.ui
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
      <item>
       <widget class="QTextEdit" name="viewSourceTV">
        <property name="sizePolicy">
-        <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
+        <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Ignored">
          <horstretch>0</horstretch>
          <verstretch>0</verstretch>
         </sizepolicy>
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
         <set>Qt::AlignLeading|Qt::AlignLeft|Qt::AlignVCenter</set>
        </property>
        <property name="horizontalSpacing">
-        <number>-1</number>
+        <number>6</number>
        </property>
        <property name="verticalSpacing">
         <number>4</number>
diff --git a/status.21x b/status.21x
index d17b96e13e..fff022dd96 100644
--- a/status.21x
+++ b/status.21x
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ What's new
 
 - Fix category of several layouts of the foils text class (UI only).
 
+- Correct minimal size of the view source window (bug 4430).
+
 
 * INTERNALS