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Please go to GNOME-Shell Extension: YaST (item in) Status Menu.

I read a blogpost from Nelson Marques about adding YaST modules icon to GNOME Shell. I kind of liked the idea of YaST integration into GNOME Shell, but I had to share Julian Aloofi’s worries in comments. He came up with a simple idea to just add the YaST menuitem to status menu in the top-right corner. This was very easy to implement because most of the GNOME Shell features are written in Javascript. I created the following simple hack and ended up with this:

If you want to add the YaST menuitem as well, just follow these simple steps (as root):

cd /
wget https://gist.github.com/raw/8d0d7d756e18b8a1da21/131a6caae2556edaa045f9cc3f13c573e12f2d31/gnome3-statusmenu-yast.patch
patch -p1 < gnome3-statusmenu-yast.patch
rm gnome3-statusmenu-yast.patch

Now you have to restart GNOME Shell (press Alt+F2 and enter “r” command) and you can enjoy the new menu item. Remember, the changes will be lost next time you reinstall the gnome-shell package.

I already contacted Frederic and Vincent about the patch and they are still looking for the best way how to integrate YaST with the rest of the system, so stay tuned.

PS: Andy found an interesting bug. For him, the item was added but clicking on it did nothing. Solution was found by Frederic – just install the missing gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE package.