Well today google offer us their usual april fools and there good thing

1. April FOOLS!!!!!

Google Romance, post your profile and find your perfect partner with google's i'm feeling lucky feature


2. Gtalk With Buddy Icons

First impressions WOW what an update!

chats look great now with the new display pictures, which you can choose any picture you want

This build also has Conversation Themes to change the layout of your messages
for instance, ping pong with buddy icons displays your messages on the left and your contacts mesages on the right. There are 9 themes included by default, but i'm sure some people will make more somehow

Some minor UI changes (text to buttons)


OVERALL:
I really like the new build and once again will be reccommending it to all my contact list, still needs to have file transfer and graphic emoticons (i know graphic emoticons are possible with gtalk addons )


By the Way whatever happened to patchous announcement about Google, in which juzzi (i think) was saying about gtalk plus?????

what build are you using?

i only have 2 contacts on googletalk... and one of them is my other account, lol... msn for me please

I'm using build 1.0.0.91 available from www.filehippo.com

so why does gtalk.com give my 1.0.0.86?

because its not been officially released to the whole public
it is on gtalk somewhere but labelled under gtalk_tester.exe or something, but it is legitimate and works a charm from filehippo.com

Download from Google: http://desktop.google.com/download/googletalk/goo...-setup-testing.exe

thanks mablung, its a really cool build i think

anyone see the 'news' on mess.be that they are going to start a gtalk site? do you reckon its legitimate or a really dodgy april fools joke

i think it would be good to have a gtalk news site

Fukafly do you see DP/Buddy icons in conversations? I saw some screenshots with Images on convo .. But i dont know how to (Enable?) that stuff..

Edit:

yeah build .91 has the buddy icons and layout themes

please download from the link specified and you should be able to add DP's from the contact list

Yeah.. im using that version.. but im not able to use Images in conversations .. dunno why..

Anyway forget about this maybe its a problem at my side

have you changed your theme to be one with out pictures? that might be the case, go to google talks settings, you can contact me i'm still fukafly on googletalk

cant wait foir the next buildd though..  but this one rocks so far

i know if only it had a file transfer and webcam features it would pwn msn for its simplicity and speed and it never crashes

So why hasn't build .91 been released publicly and officially on http://www.google.com/talk/ and will it be released by them soon?

EDIT: Never mind, .92 has been publicly released on auto update!