People complaining about the poor graphics Google Talk features as opposed to other IM clients should be more patient.

An user is getting ready to launch the first Google Talk skin, which is in fact just a change of color : the new one is red instead of blue.

For now, Google Talk Red Skin, created by James Perkins, is at the 0.7 version and it can be downloaded here:http://www.talkmad.com/forum/index.php?download=5 .

But before installing the new skin, you should better back-up your original googletalk.exe file, otherwise you might encounter some unpleasant surprises.
So, new skins are here.

What about emoticons?
We'll let you know as soon as something new comes up!