Does Google Talk go?

After the appearance of this article I will state my thoughts about using Google Talk .
Along with the advantages described in the next article, the client discussed has its drawbacks.

• US client version is more functional than other locale versions.
The US version allows you to use data transfer, the “Show current music track” function, additional skins.

• Quite a small number of settings. There is a basic vital set, but I would like more extensibility. For example, to set your preferences for communication windows, and not just use ready-made skins.

• Show current music track - a feature used by many in Miranda's and QIP's built in here. No plugins are needed, GTalk pulls out the current track from any of the supported players . But it turns out "amazing" load on the processor.

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• If the connection is lost, the status of the contacts does not change. Quite often you do not notice that the connection is broken and continue to write. As a result, messages reach the addressee only as a chat history, or they may not reach at all. At the same time, this happens on the “other side of the line,” when the interlocutor of GTalk does not report that I went offline.

• When the connection is lost, the client starts to reconnect. What does with each attempt time grows. Out of habit, you write a message offline and wait for the Internet to appear in order to send it. Write lines 10-20 and then the Internet appears. And the client is going to connect in 70 seconds. In this case, as it should be, you press "Disconnect / Connect", and, in this case, the sneaky client closes all open chat windows, and your writings go under the tail.

• To the difference between the US and other versions - the difference between the local and web-client. The web client offers even more features , like tabbing of active windows, 3 sets of emoticons, the ability to play video in the chat window. All this would be useful in the desktop version.

• When using the “Show Desktop” function, or simply - the combination of Windows + D hotkeys the chat window is minimized, but then returned to the expanded state, while remaining “minimized” in functionality. Right-click on the chat window in the taskbar, and there are two active functions: “Close” and “Maximize to full screen”, although the window is already maximized. Sometimes it is annoying.
• When you open the next chat window, it opens in the “dock” of the previous one, minimizing it. In general, I do not understand the usefulness of this function. Especially when the windows are not small in size, it is not very easy to pull a new window out of the dock. It is impossible to remove this function, again weak extensibility affects.

• Well, the last thing I don’t like in the discussed IM client is the traffic when using voice communication. It was experimentally observed that for normal voice communication a speed of more than 9Kb / s is required. Unfortunately, with my adsl connection, I have no more than 8Kb / s outgoing traffic, so voice distortions or breaks occur and you have to return to other voip clients that are less demanding of traffic.

PS In such cases, using other clients supporting the jabber protocol is a more acceptable option, but I continue to use GTalk further because of the possibility of viewing pictures in the chat window. But I want the product to still be "beta than nothing".