Authoritative resource for building, auditing, and improving GNOME GTK4/libadwaita apps. Design tokens, 42-widget component library, 21 pattern skills, 47 mirrored HIG pages, 34 real-app audits, and lint scripts. Use when building a GNOME app, adding GNOME GUI features, auditing HIG compliance, packaging for Flatpak/Flathub, or when the user mentions GTK, libadwaita, Adw, Blueprint, or GNOME HIG.
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Read ONLY the one or two files your task needs. Do not read INDEX.md or the master guide unless routing below fails.
| Your task | Read this |
|---|---|
| New app, end-to-end (scaffold → Flatpak) | QUICKSTART.md (lanes for Python, Rust, C, GJS) |
| New app from scratch | skills/quick-start/SKILL.md, then skills/language-quickstart/SKILL.md for your language |
| CI / GitHub Actions / release automation | skills/github-actions-ci/SKILL.md |
| Audit / review / polish an existing app | skills/hig-audit/SKILL.md (quick automated pass: scripts/lint-app.sh <dir>) |
| Preferences/settings UI | skills/preferences-dialog/SKILL.md |
| Persist settings / window state | skills/gsettings-backend/SKILL.md |
| Delete/remove/clear actions | skills/delete-with-undo/SKILL.md |
| Tabs or views in header bar | skills/view-switcher/SKILL.md |
| Multi-document tabs | skills/tabbed-documents/SKILL.md |
| Sidebar / master-detail | skills/sidebar-navigation/SKILL.md |
| Phone/narrow-window support | skills/adaptive-layout/SKILL.md |
| Header bar design | skills/header-bar/SKILL.md |
| Empty/loading/error states | skills/empty-state/SKILL.md |
| Toasts / user feedback | skills/toast-feedback/SKILL.md |
| Search or filtering | skills/search-pattern/SKILL.md |
| Exclusive options (radio) | skills/radio-group/SKILL.md |
| Onboarding tour / wizard | skills/carousel-tour/SKILL.md or skills/wizard-assistant/SKILL.md |
| Keyboard shortcuts + help window | skills/shortcuts-window/SKILL.md |
| About dialog / app metadata | skills/about-dialog/SKILL.md |
| Accessibility | skills/accessibility/SKILL.md |
| Flatpak / Flathub | skills/flatpak-packaging/SKILL.md |
| You need | Read this |
|---|---|
| A specific widget's Blueprint/XML API | components/<widget>.md (36 files, kebab-case names; index in COMPONENT-LIBRARY.md) |
| Spacing/margin values | tokens/spacing.md |
| Window sizes, sidebar widths, breakpoints | tokens/sizing.md |
| Font classes, capitalization | tokens/typography.md |
| Window structure / which navigation pattern | reference/app-architecture.md |
| App skeleton to copy | reference/layout-recipes.md or reference/app-templates.md |
| What NOT to do + release checklist | reference/anti-patterns.md |
| CSS style classes | tokens/style-classes.md |
| Valid icon name | grep reference/icons.md (645 icons); validate with scripts/check-icons.sh |
| "How does app X do Y?" | INTENT-MAP.md (intent → app → file:line, 34 apps) |
| Official HIG wording on a topic | reference/hig/<topic>.md (47 pages) |
| How a real GNOME app is built | audits/<app>.md (34 pattern audits) |
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Add a standard AdwAboutDialog wired to app metadata, plus the AppStream metainfo file it should share data with. Use when adding an About entry, release notes, credits, or preparing app metadata.
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Make a GTK4/libadwaita app accessible — accessible labels and roles, tooltips on icon-only buttons, keyboard navigation, contrast, and testing with Orca/Accerciser. Use when fixing a11y issues or running the accessibility category of a HIG audit.
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Responsive GNOME layouts: AdwBreakpoint conditions, BreakpointBin, MultiLayoutView, BottomSheet, narrow/wide layout swaps. Use when making an app work on phones or narrow windows.
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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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Implement GNOME's 4-tier destructive-action pattern: undo toasts instead of confirmation dialogs, AdwAlertDialog for irreversible actions. Use when adding delete, remove, clear, or other destructive actions.
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Loading, empty, and error states with AdwStatusPage and AdwSpinner — placeholder icons, titles, action buttons. Use when an app view can be empty, loading, or failed.
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