Google Talk Review

Google Talk has only been out for a few days, and is very much in the beta stage still. What I can't find is a "Give us Feedback" section that normally comes with all of Google's Beta projects. Most of the Google Groups that talk about Google Talk don't seem to be the ones where the Google Talk developers would go to get feedback.

Until I can find these (if you know where they are please leave a comment), I decided I will just put what I would like to see come with Google Talk. Feel free to put your suggestions as well.

First off I would like to see Google Talk utilize a better notification system for emails. When I installed Google Talk I chose to uninstall the GMail Notifier, but since have reinstalled it due to the fact that it just lets me know that I have new mail so much better. It's easy to just glance down and look for a blue envelope rather than to hover over the Google Talk icon and see if there is a message.

It would be cool to see like a small red M envelope (like on the GMail logo) on the Google Talk icon to let you know when there is new mail in your Inbox.

Second, It would be nice if there was a quicker way to get rid of those new email notifications. These are nice to have so while I am sitting there I have a link to the message as well as notification that there is a new one, but sometimes you just want a red X to close it quickly (such as with MSN Messengers notifications).

That's it for right now, I'm sure that I may think of more, especially as Google Talk continues to evolve. I am very impressed with how clean and straight forward the Google Talk interface is, Google has done a very good job.

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