Were not you the one who typed: "I’ve read in the forums about the HP utils, but I haven’t tried them " ?? Well I have tried them, and they work well WITH HP
As you yourself said it (as you noted, the tray icon IS there for HP),** I** noted it, so I kind of didn’t need someone to come here just to tell me: they work with HP, so I don’t need the help you need.
Such behavior is similar to this: I’m lost in a city and I ask where can I find Restaurant 123. Then someone hears me asking, approaches me and replies that he doesn’t need that direction since he’s going to Restaurant 567 and that I should as well go there too.
Nice.
As for the rest of your post, I always like when people assume more than they can about the needs and efforts of others. For example, you assumed that:
a) I need something that just works;
b) I didn’t make my homework in knowing what just works in Linux;
c) at this point in my life I can afford a new printer just because of a printer-applet and I bought my printer after I was already a Linux user;
d) my hardware doesn’t work with Linux;
e) a printer-applet is more important to me than [insert whatever here];
As it turns out:
a) I don’t need something that just works, since I’m willing to mess around with things to get the hardware I need working.
b) I know at what extent my Epson printer model works in Linux and I know that for quite some time now, which leads me to…
c)… I bought that printer because that model from Epson was the best model, at the time, for my needs and, at this moment, I can’t afford a new equivalent model from HP (can’t and don’t want to, since I like Epson’s quality better)*.
d) I also don’t need to change my printer since it always worked flawlessly in Linux - and it still does.
e) a printer-applet monitor is not important: it’s just practical. I asked about one because I always had a working one with other distros. Not an important thing to OpenSUSE? Then, by all means, just inform me of that and I won’t bother anyone with it anymore. In this case, If that thing in the corner was important, I wouldn’t change the printer: I would change the distro.
I do hope you succeed. … But I fear the worst.
I’m not as pessimist: Kubuntu has the thing working as long as the printer works, so guess what: I actually think is possible.
