diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 22f225004b..ffc397cf91 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-10-12  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/widgets/gimpprogressdialog.c (gimp_progress_dialog_new): set
+	the "skip_taskbar_hint" and "skip_pager_hint" properties on the
+	progress window.
+
 2004-10-11  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>
 
 	* plug-ins/fp/fp.c: Moved from here...
diff --git a/app/widgets/gimpprogressdialog.c b/app/widgets/gimpprogressdialog.c
index 6318f06567..265363ff31 100644
--- a/app/widgets/gimpprogressdialog.c
+++ b/app/widgets/gimpprogressdialog.c
@@ -237,8 +237,10 @@ GtkWidget *
 gimp_progress_dialog_new (void)
 {
   return g_object_new (GIMP_TYPE_PROGRESS_DIALOG,
-                       "title",     _("Progress"),
-                       "role",      "progress",
-                       "resizable", FALSE,
+                       "title",             _("Progress"),
+                       "role",              "progress",
+                       "skip_taskbar_hint", TRUE,
+                       "skip_pager_hint",   TRUE,
+                       "resizable",         FALSE,
                        NULL);
 }