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gnome-carousel-tour

Onboarding tour with AdwCarousel and navigation dots, skippable welcome screens. Use when adding a first-run tour or feature showcase to a GNOME app.

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Skill: Carousel / Onboarding Tour

Goal: Build a swipeable onboarding tour with navigation dots.

Pattern extracted from gnome-tour.

Architecture

<template class="Window" parent="AdwApplicationWindow">
  <property name="default-width">960</property>
  <property name="default-height">720</property>
  <property name="content">
    <object class="PaginatorWidget" id="paginator">
      <object class="AdwToolbarView">
        <child type="top">
          <object class="GtkHeaderBar">
            <property name="title-widget">
              <object class="AdwCarouselIndicatorDots" id="carousel_dots">
                <property name="carousel">carousel</property>
              </object>
            </property>
          </object>
        </child>
        <property name="content">
          <object class="GtkOverlay">
            <!-- Previous button -->
            <child type="overlay">
              <object class="GtkButton" id="previous_btn">
                <property name="margin-start">12</property>
                <property name="icon-name">prev-large-symbolic</property>
                <property name="halign">start</property>
                <property name="valign">center</property>
                <property name="tooltip-text" translatable="yes">Previous</property>
                <style><class name="circular"/></style>
              </object>
            </child>
            <!-- Next button -->
            <child type="overlay">
              <object class="GtkButton" id="next_btn">
                <property name="margin-end">12</property>
                <property name="icon-name">next-large-symbolic</property>
                <property name="halign">end</property>
                <property name="valign">center</property>
                <property name="tooltip-text" translatable="yes">Next</property>
                <style><class name="circular"/></style>
              </object>
            </child>
            <!-- Carousel -->
            <object class="AdwCarousel" id="carousel">
              <property name="hexpand">True</property>
              <property name="vexpand">True</property>
            </object>
          </object>
        </property>
      </object>
    </object>
  </property>
</template>

Slide Template

<template class="ImagePageWidget" parent="GtkWidget">
  <object class="GtkBox" id="container">
    <property name="orientation">vertical</property>
    <property name="spacing">12</property>
    <property name="valign">center</property>
    <property name="halign">center</property>
    <property name="margin-bottom">48</property>
    <property name="margin-top">12</property>
    <property name="margin-start">12</property>
    <property name="margin-end">12</property>

    <object class="GtkPicture" id="picture">
      <property name="can-shrink">true</property>
      <property name="content-fit">contain</property>
    </object>

    <object class="GtkLabel" id="head_label">
      <property name="justify">center</property>
      <property name="margin-top">36</property>
      <style><class name="title-1"/></style>
    </object>

    <object class="GtkLabel">
      <property name="lines">2</property>
      <property name="wrap">true</property>
      <property name="justify">center</property>
      <property name="margin-top">12</property>
      <style><class name="body"/></style>
    </object>
  </object>
</template>

Last Page: Show Start Button

On the final slide, replace the Next button with a suggested-action button:

<object class="GtkButton" id="start_btn">
  <property name="margin-end">12</property>
  <property name="icon-name">next-large-symbolic</property>
  <property name="halign">end</property>
  <property name="valign">center</property>
  <style>
    <class name="suggested-action"/>
    <class name="circular"/>
  </style>
</object>

Keyboard Navigation

Add GtkEventControllerKey for arrow key navigation:

<child>
  <object class="GtkEventControllerKey">
    <signal name="key-pressed" handler="on_key_pressed"/>
  </object>
</child>

Spacing Reference

ValueWhere
12Default margins, box spacing
36Image ↔ heading gap
48Bottom margin (offset from carousel dots)
12Nav button edge margin

Rules

  • Window: 960×720 default for tour content
  • Dots in header bar center (clever use of title-widget slot)
  • Navigation buttons as overlays (not in header bar)
  • title-1 for headings (lots of whitespace in carousel)
  • body class for description text
  • Limit body to 2 lines
  • GtkPicture for scalable SVG illustrations

Real App Reference

  • gnome-tour/data/resources/ui/window.ui
  • gnome-tour/data/resources/ui/paginator.ui
  • gnome-tour/data/resources/ui/image-page.ui

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