New Version Of Google Talk Leaked
Philipp has a nice scoop: Google has quietly put a new version of Google Talk up for download, with no public announcement. Download it now, in case them yank it!
So, what’s new? The big new feature is buddy icons, or whatever Google chooses to call them. In your IM client, click the little image of a torso and head to change it to any of 30 pictures, or use any picture by dropping it in your My Documents\My Pictures\Google Talk folder. Pictures must be 96×96 pixel bitmaps.
Another new feature is that you can select a Chat Theme, that will determine how conversations look. You hit the Appearance section in Settings, and you have five themes to choose from: Classic, Bubble (the one in the screenshot), Serene (light red and blue bars with names in them, right aligned, while chat text remains left-aligned), Swiss (plain black lettering and single black seperator lines) and Ping Pong. All the themes, except Ping Pong, come with and without the contact’s picture. Ping is a plain theme that puts one chatter aligned on the left, picture and all, and one aligned on the right.
Another new feature: A contact card appears when you rollover someone in the buddy list, like in Gmail. You can see that in the screenshot. Right now, this contains no additional information, and is kind of useless, unless you want to see a bigger version of the person’s picture.
The new version is 1.0.0.91, the previous I had installed was 1.0.0.86.
Other minor changes: New Add and View buttons, the latter with sorting and interface options; alert have close buttons (and dissapear when you right-click on them); links in chats are not underlined until you rollover.
Does not make sense to let ME choose a picture for my buddy. Would have made more sense if my buddy could put up a picture for me to see… as in Yahoo Messenger!
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“Would have made more sense if my buddy could put up a picture for me to see… as in Yahoo Messenger!”
Or, well, any of the other clients.
If GTalk, as they say, will eventually work with the AIM network, I would imagine the buddy icons would have to be set by the user individually (that is, only for himself), or at least GTalk will have to support that.
Incidentally, why am I not using GTalk to chat on AIM yet?
Comment by Michael Akerman | March 31, 2006
Well, I’ve been checking the new version out.
Can you change your buddies’ buddy icons? I seem to be only able to change mine.
Which would make it a moot point.
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u can select ur own avatar if u wish
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There is a full review on www.customizetalk.com with all the changes in this version
Comment by Ricker | April 2, 2006
My favorite feature is the buddy icon as well. This new stuff is alot of fun to play with!
Comment by Britney | April 2, 2006
how do u work it
Comment by kieranwells | April 6, 2006
it is good to see my buddy icon.this new stuff is now comparable with yahoo.
Comment by chandra bhal singh | April 7, 2006
idd
Comment by Brock | April 18, 2006
Love the dude. Keep up the good work.
Comment by David Knight | April 22, 2006
Hello
Comment by Pony | May 9, 2006
Hi
Comment by Pony | May 9, 2006
Keep a good job up!
Comment by kkkkoaaa | May 26, 2006