diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/job_view.ui b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/job_view.ui
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e854c0f29..0000000000
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/job_view.ui
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<ui version="4.0">
- <class>Dialog</class>
- <widget class="QDialog" name="Dialog">
-  <property name="geometry">
-   <rect>
-    <x>0</x>
-    <y>0</y>
-    <width>664</width>
-    <height>462</height>
-   </rect>
-  </property>
-  <property name="windowTitle">
-   <string>Details of job</string>
-  </property>
-  <property name="windowIcon">
-   <iconset resource="../../../../resources/images.qrc">
-    <normaloff>:/images/view.png</normaloff>:/images/view.png</iconset>
-  </property>
-  <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout">
-   <item row="0" column="0">
-    <widget class="QPlainTextEdit" name="log">
-     <property name="undoRedoEnabled">
-      <bool>false</bool>
-     </property>
-     <property name="lineWrapMode">
-      <enum>QPlainTextEdit::NoWrap</enum>
-     </property>
-     <property name="readOnly">
-      <bool>true</bool>
-     </property>
-    </widget>
-   </item>
-   <item row="2" column="0">
-    <widget class="QDialogButtonBox" name="buttonBox">
-     <property name="standardButtons">
-      <set>QDialogButtonBox::Ok</set>
-     </property>
-    </widget>
-   </item>
-   <item row="1" column="0">
-    <widget class="QTextBrowser" name="tb"/>
-   </item>
-  </layout>
- </widget>
- <resources>
-  <include location="../../../../resources/images.qrc"/>
- </resources>
- <connections>
-  <connection>
-   <sender>buttonBox</sender>
-   <signal>accepted()</signal>
-   <receiver>Dialog</receiver>
-   <slot>accept()</slot>
-   <hints>
-    <hint type="sourcelabel">
-     <x>617</x>
-     <y>442</y>
-    </hint>
-    <hint type="destinationlabel">
-     <x>206</x>
-     <y>-5</y>
-    </hint>
-   </hints>
-  </connection>
- </connections>
-</ui>
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/jobs.py b/src/calibre/gui2/jobs.py
index 71c8c2e05c..e52ef4f8ff 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/jobs.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/jobs.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from PyQt5.Qt import (QAbstractTableModel, QModelIndex, Qt,
     QTimer, pyqtSignal, QIcon, QDialog, QAbstractItemDelegate, QApplication,
     QSize, QStyleOptionProgressBar, QStyle, QToolTip, QFrame,
     QHBoxLayout, QVBoxLayout, QSizePolicy, QLabel, QCoreApplication, QAction,
-    QByteArray, QSortFilterProxyModel)
+    QByteArray, QSortFilterProxyModel, QTextBrowser, QPlainTextEdit)
 
 from calibre.constants import islinux, isbsd
 from calibre.utils.ipc.server import Server
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ from calibre.gui2 import (Dispatcher, error_dialog, question_dialog,
 from calibre.gui2.device import DeviceJob
 from calibre.gui2.dialogs.jobs_ui import Ui_JobsDialog
 from calibre import __appname__, as_unicode
-from calibre.gui2.dialogs.job_view_ui import Ui_Dialog
 from calibre.gui2.progress_indicator import ProgressIndicator
 from calibre.gui2.threaded_jobs import ThreadedJobServer, ThreadedJob
+from calibre.gui2.widgets2 import Dialog
 from calibre.utils.search_query_parser import SearchQueryParser, ParseException
 from calibre.utils.icu import lower
 
@@ -408,26 +408,34 @@ class ProgressBarDelegate(QAbstractItemDelegate):  # {{{
         QApplication.style().drawControl(QStyle.CE_ProgressBar, opts, painter)
 # }}}
 
-class DetailView(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):  # {{{
+class DetailView(Dialog):  # {{{
 
     def __init__(self, parent, job):
-        QDialog.__init__(self, parent)
-        self.setupUi(self)
-        self.setWindowTitle(job.description)
         self.job = job
-        self.html_view = (hasattr(job, 'html_details') and not getattr(job,
-            'ignore_html_details', False))
+        self.html_view = hasattr(job, 'html_details') and not getattr(job, 'ignore_html_details', False)
+        Dialog.__init__(self, job.description, 'job-detail-view-dialog', parent)
+
+    def sizeHint(self):
+        return QSize(700, 500)
+
+    def setup_ui(self):
+        self.l = l = QVBoxLayout(self)
         if self.html_view:
-            self.log.setVisible(False)
+            self.tb = w = QTextBrowser(self)
         else:
-            self.tb.setVisible(False)
+            self.log = w = QPlainTextEdit(self)
+            w.setReadOnly(True), w.setLineWrapMode(w.NoWrap)
+        l.addWidget(w)
+        l.addWidget(self.bb)
+        self.bb.clear(), self.bb.setStandardButtons(self.bb.Close)
         self.next_pos = 0
         self.update()
         self.timer = QTimer(self)
         self.timer.timeout.connect(self.update)
         self.timer.start(1000)
-        v = self.log.verticalScrollBar()
-        v.setValue(v.maximum())
+        if not self.html_view:
+            v = self.log.verticalScrollBar()
+            v.setValue(v.maximum())
 
     def update(self):
         if self.html_view: