title: Fixing sizes of widgets in QT designer layouts
body: <p>I have a QT form that has literally hundreds of widgets and to make them all fit on the screen at once (as required) I need to make them pretty small. The Form will have fixed (non resizable) size when used. I can resize the widgets to the desired height/width and use the appropriate (small) font size, make their size policy "fixed" etc. However, as soon as I start putting them into layouts, they gow to some, much larger minimum size. This is particularly true for the height of the widgets, but width is sometimes affectged as well.</p>
  
  <p>My problem would be solved if I knew how to do one of the three following things:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Change a layout's  default minimum size(s) for widgets.</p></li>
  <li><p>Force a layout not to alter widgets sizes.</p></li>
  <li><p>Use Qt designer to nicely align widgets in grid-like formats without using layouts.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I searched extensively Qt designer's docs and SO, to no avail. </p>
  
  <p>Help is greatly appreciated </p>