It would be nice, although not sure how possible at this stage, to have a KIO slave representation of gmail. Read your Gmail messages from konq? user defined icon for the systray like how about selecting a contact from KCheckGmail and have it launch the browser with a gmail compose message page showing? One suggestion I have is to allow different notifications based on the gmail label an incoming email gets; that way a different tune could be played depending on who sent you an email. I don't know if the gmail protocols provide the label info, but I think this would be helpful.