The sidebar of evince 0.8.2, can only be enlarged but not shrinked. when using mouse to drag the middle 'grab bar' between sidebar and viewing pane, I can only drag right-ward, not left-ward, making the sidebar larger and larger and viewing pane smaller and smaller. This is frustrating as I have to turn off sidebar to view the document. 

This happens for all pdf files I viewed. One example would be http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.pdf

As I've noticed, the size/position of sidebar is remembered for every document so next time when the document is loaded, the sidebar is set to the last size and position. So I located and deleted this file ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml, and yes the sidebar is reset to a reasonable size, but is still unshinkable. I've tried to remove and reinstall evince, but the problem persists.

Here I attached the content of ev-metadata.xml for your reference:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<metadata>
  <document uri="file:///home/xinhua/Desktop/svn-book.pdf" atime="1191899423">
    <entry key="sidebar_page" type="gchararray" value="links"/>
    <entry key="window_maximized" type="gboolean" value="0"/>
    <entry key="window_width" type="gint" value="600"/>
    <entry key="sidebar_size" type="gint" value="482"/>
    <entry key="window_height_ratio" type="gdouble" value="0.75757575757575757"/>
    <entry key="window_width_ratio" type="gdouble" value="0.98039215686274506"/>
    <entry key="window_x" type="gint" value="29"/>
    <entry key="window_height" type="gint" value="600"/>
    <entry key="window_y" type="gint" value="139"/>
  </document>
  <document uri="last-used-value" atime="1191899423">
    <entry key="sidebar_page" type="gchararray" value="links"/>
    <entry key="window_maximized" type="gboolean" value="0"/>
    <entry key="window_width" type="gint" value="600"/>
    <entry key="sidebar_size" type="gint" value="482"/>
    <entry key="window_height_ratio" type="gdouble" value="0.75757575757575757"/>
    <entry key="window_width_ratio" type="gdouble" value="0.98039215686274506"/>
    <entry key="window_x" type="gint" value="29"/>
    <entry key="window_height" type="gint" value="600"/>
    <entry key="window_y" type="gint" value="139"/>
  </document>
</metadata>