[Slackbuilds-users] Introduction & questions about link creation for the 'oxygen-gtk' theme

[Nicolas Kovacs]

Hi,

I'm an Austrian IT consultant (big word for saying that I run a 
one-man-company specialized in installing SOHO networks for small town 
halls, schools, public libraries and the likes, based 100% on GNU/Linux 
and FOSS) living in Montpezat, a small and sunny village in South 
France. I made my first steps on Linux back on 2001 on Slackware, and 
I've been a Slackware user for a few years. For the last few years, I've 
been switching to CentOS for various reasons. About two weeks ago, I've 
decided to come back to Slackware because 1) the release policy suits 
me, 2) despite the appearances, it's enterprise class, 3) it's 
rock-solid and belongs to the category of rare Linux distributions that 
JustWork(tm), 4) it doesn't succumb to the temptation of reinventing the 
wheel every six months by desperately implementing every new technology 
on the block. 5) It's fun. But you probably know all that.

I'm currently quite busy getting my act together on Slackware, so I'm 
writing sets of tagfiles, put all my config files in nifty little 
SlackBuild scripts so I can distribute them easily, RTFM a lot, etc.

I'm using KDE as desktop, and I tried out SBo's 'oxygen-gtk' package for 
visual integration of GTK applications. It works really great, but now I 
have a - small - problem that I'd like to solve.

1) The site contains a small HOWTO on how to activate the theme, simply 
by creating a symlink like this:

$ cd
$ ln -s /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc .gtkrc-2.0

Which works nice.

2) Since I'm planning to use this configuration on machines with lots of 
users (think: schools), I'd like to integrate this in my user profiles. 
So I tried this:

# ln -s /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0

Which works also nice: every new user is created "automagically" with 
the relevant symlink in his home directory.

3) Now here comes the point where I reach my limit of competence. I'm 
trying to package my default user profile. I'm writing a SlackBuild 
script for this, and right now, I wonder how to define that symlink. I 
know how to go about it with a simple file. Say I have a 'gtkrc' file in 
the same directory as the SlackBuild script, the solution would be 
something like this:

mkdir -p $PKG/etc/skel
cat $CWD/gtkrc > $PKG/etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0
chmod 0644 $PKG/etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0

But how could I have something similar with the symlink?

Any suggestions?

Niki