Adding modules to YaST

I discovered today how to add modules to YaST. In the following, I used smart package manager to do this, but you can do this for any admin app.

First put this code:in /usr/share/YaST2/clients

{ // begin

//===================================================================
// Start smart either Text (commandline) or GUI mode
//-------------------------------------------------------------------
integer status = 0;

if (UI::TextMode())
{
y2milestone("Running smart in command line mode.");
// Popup::Error(_("Cannot run smart in text-mode"));
status = (integer)UI::RunInTerminal("/usr/bin/smart --shell");
}
else
{
y2milestone("Running smart in GUI mode.");
// Popup::Error(_("Cannot run smart in GUI-mode"));
status = (integer)SCR::Execute(.target.bash, "/usr/bin/smart --gui");
}

y2milestone("smart finished with exit code: <%1>", status);
if (status == 0) {
return `next;
}
return `nil;

}

Next you'll put your applications icon in /usr/share/YaST2/theme/openSUSE/icons/32x3
and then put the [application name].desktop in /usr/share/applications/YaST2
The [application name].desktop, at least for smart, the code looks like this

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application
Categories=Settings;System;Qt;X-SuSE-YaST;X-SuSE-YaST-Software;

X-KDE-ModuleType=Library
X-KDE-RootOnly=true
X-KDE-HasReadOnlyMode=true
X-KDE-Library=yast2
X-SuSE-YaST-Call=smart

X-SuSE-YaST-Group=Software
X-SuSE-YaST-Argument=
X-SuSE-YaST-RootOnly=true
X-SuSE-YaST-AutoInst=
X-SuSE-YaST-Geometry=
X-SuSE-YaST-AutoInstResource=

Icon=smart
Exec=/sbin/yast2 smart

Name=Smart Package Manager
GenericName=A next generation package manager written in python that functions on multiple distributions
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true
Now for more info on ycp you can read this http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SL10.2/tdg/Book-YaSTReference.html

StartupNotify=true