Forgot this when I commited Michael's gnome stuff.

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GNOME FRONT END
===============
Firstly, this stuff is pre-alpha. I don't use it so you shouldn't
either. At all, no exceptions :).
The GNOME frontend of LyX uses libglade to draw the dialogs. The base
(GnomeBase.C) class handles the drawing and activating of the Dialogs,
for an example of contructing a simple dialog see FormUrl.[Ch]
FormUrl::FormUrl(ControlUrl & c)
: FormCB<ControlUrl>(c, "FormUrl")
{}
To manipulate a widget you extract a pointer using getWidget(string).
If you look at FormUrl you'll see that there are a number of
helper functions at the bottom of the .C file. These are
automatically generated by accessors.py
Glade files now must follow the following conventions:
* The filename should be the same as the .C and .h Files (i.e
FormTabularCreate.glade)
* The root widget should have the same name
* Functional widgets should have an r_ as the first two characters of
their name. (see below)
USING ACCESSORS.PY
==================
Usage:
python accessors.py glade_ui_file DialogClass
Accessors.py will write the helper functions to DialogClass.C_gen and
the function declarations to DialogClass.g_gen. To ensure the widgets
you're interested in are made available using this method, prefix the
widgets name with r_ when you build the dialog in Glade.