Icons for Google Talk Contacts
February 2, 2007
If you want to have desktop icons for your favorite Google Talk contacts, there’s an easy to do it.
Right-click on your desktop and select New / shortcut. Then type:
gtalk:chat?jid=[Gmail-Username]@gmail.com
and the name of your friend (of course, replace [Gmail-Username] with the actual username.Infact type your own mail id and watch the fun). When you click on the shortcut, Google Talk will open a new window where you can chat with your friend. To make a shortcut that automatically calls your friend type this instead:
gtalk:call?jid=[Gmail-Username]@gmail.com
You could right-click on the icon, select properties and choose a new icon.
If Google Talk is not open, clicking on the shortcut will launch it, but won’t open a new chat window
for your friend.
You can easily launch Google Talk by going to Start/Run and typing gtalk: (gtalk followed by a colon).
Also, the above mentioned commands can be used to call gtalk from the Run Command.
