Kevin Chiu

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Integrating Google Talk with Google Desktop 2


  1. Have both Google Desktop 2 and Google Talk installed.
  2. Put Google Desktop into Sidebar mode by right clicking the Google Desktop Search taskbar icon and selecting sidebar, then clicking the down arrow in the title bar of the sidebar and selecting the dock option you want (right or left). You can also select Down Arrow -> autohide if you don't like it taking up space on your screen.
  3. Click the down arrow in the title bar of the Google Desktop sidebar and select the option Add/Remove panels.
  4. Check Google Talk.
  5. Uncheck Gmail - Google Talk takes over for incoming email notification.

Troubleshooting:
If at first the option "Google Talk" does not appear as a panel to be added, just close the sidebar and open it again. The option should appear. - thanks Rohan

You can also try restarting Google Talk to get the add panel option to appear. - A Commenter

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13 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

How do you put gtalk into sidebar mode?

8/24/2005 5:21 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

You need to put Google Desktop into Sidebar mode by right clicking the Google Desktop Search taskbar icon and selecting sidebar, then clicking the down arrow in the title bar of the sidebar and selecting the dock option you want (right or left)

Then you just need to go to the down-arrow menu -> Add/Remove Panels -> Put a check mark next to Google Talk

8/24/2005 5:25 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

Did I mention you need to have Google Desktop installed? (http://desktop.google.com)

8/24/2005 5:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Got it, I had to quit gTalk first before it would show up as a panel I could use in the sidebar.

8/24/2005 7:51 PM  
Blogger Phil Ucerian said...

sweet wallpaper can you send me it or where did you get it from?? thx

8/25/2005 5:16 AM  
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http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/

8/25/2005 5:53 AM  
Blogger Stijn said...

if only my friends stopped using MSN and started using Talk...

8/26/2005 9:23 AM  
Blogger Rishi said...

Yup, my friends love to use MSN too for some reason..... Only a few of them use Google Talk! How come you have sooooo many friends that use google talk? I wish it was that way with my friends.....

11/17/2005 9:45 PM  
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2/02/2009 10:25 PM  
Blogger Our Family said...

I have tried to follow these instructions to add Google talk to my Google side bar however when puling the drop down I do not see an option to Add/ Remove panels. Am I doing something wrong?

6/15/2009 1:40 PM  
Blogger Kevin Chiu said...

Hello,

It's actually already built in now. Search the menus. I no longer use Windows; so, I can't help you any further.

6/15/2009 2:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey i found out an easier way to put gtalk into the sidebar! open up gtalk and double click on the title bar!

8/14/2009 11:51 AM  
Blogger Adelita said...

how do you log out of the google talk that is in the google desktop sidebar? I can't figure it out for the life of me...

11/19/2009 2:52 PM  

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