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Any gmail guys out there? Something I desperately, desperately want is this:

I use one gmail account with several email addresses. I want the ability to specify that certain people should be associated with certain addresses. I.e. rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org gets associated with my Apache address. Clients get associated with my @dedasys.com address. Family with @welton.it, and so on and so forth. I hate it when I accidentally send something from @gmail.com to clients.

This could be as simple as just remembering what email addresses you sent from the previous five times (or so) and defaulting to whichever is most common. That way you wouldn't have to configure it; gmail would just do the Right Thing 99% of the time, automatically.
At least it responds with the address they wrote to you with, whenever it finds a matching potential from address that matches the recipient address. That saves most cases.
On pine they're called roles. Yes, I second the request.
There's a Labs extension that can undo a send operation if you can click fast enough. But I agree, this would be a very nice feature to have.
No need to click if you have keyboard shortcuts on. Just hit 'z.'
Not directly related to the article but it reminded me that I discovered today the most amazing Google Mail feature ever: the "Forgotten Attachment Reminder." Basically it looks at the body of your email and if it detects that you mentionned an attachment but you didn't actually attach anything to the e-mail, it reminds you before sending. This is very useful for disorganized people like me who forget to actually attach the file two times out of three.
Since we're all requesting features... I want the ability to send messages to the spam folder with a custom filter. I receive certain types of spam that always get through, despite flagging it multiple times. They're easily killed with the "create filter" feature, but I end up having to send them to the trash, which is less than ideal, because now my trash is full of spam.

So, in summary, please add "send to spam" to the custom filter actions.

I think they want you to manually flag spam using the Spam button, rather than using an automated filter, mainly to avoid false positives.
I've asked the GMail team repeatedly for a way to tag messages while I'm composing them. It saves many clicks after sending -> go to sent mail, select the message, apply a label, go back to inbox. It seems like a great value-add for the zealous label-users.
In the meantime, you could use keyboard shortcuts: gtxl(label name)[ENTER]gi
I know this has been requested thousands of times in every forum on the web, but if someone from Google is listening, could you add a switch to stop automatically adding contacts?
I never really used the Google contacts feature until getting an Android phone. At that point I had to spend an hour getting my contacts into a usable state; most of that time was spent clearing out nearly six years' worth of contacts that were auto-added courtesy of Gmail.
What they should do is to allow you to remove everything that you haven't replied back to.
That should be something you can hack with the Contacts Data API:

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_gui...

I suggested having a "Compose" button instead of a link in 2004. I noticed no one, including myself, was looking for a link when they wanted to write a new email because the other active Gmail actions like "Search" and "Delete" all had buttons.
What has buttons and what has links in Gmail is totally inconsistent.

Also, has anyone ever figured out a way to edit the Quick Links that are created from the Google Labs "quick links" plugin? It seems like you can create them, but not delete or edit them.

I think you're better off learning/ enabling the keyboard shortcuts and not worrying about where the links are. Hit "c" to compose.
I'm glad they've fixed that. It took me like 5 minutes to find the compose button the first time I used Gmail.
Here's a relatively simple request.

Add the ability to sort by attachment size. I want to be able to clear out some old files and have to resort to attaching Mac Mail to it just so that I can sort.

I've heard gmail's data store makes this an expensive operation. It doesn't want to load all your messages and sort/page through them by their content. But can't give you a citation on this.

Presumably, this is why all views are chronological: it filters a time-indexed stream of messages.

I don't buy this. Gmail allows you to sort/select using other parameters. This would simply be another search param.

Note that I'm not disputing the fact that this may be an expensive operation. But I am able to go in through IMAP and issue the equivalent instructions, sort by size in client, then issue IMAP delete/purge requests, the net result is the same so why not enable this.

A related feature would be to allow deletion of only the attachement but understandably, this is probably hard to do.
I would like my mail to be automatically archived on viewing, unless I take specific action to keep it in the inbox, à la Emacs Gnus. (Emacs Gnus hides read email unless the user has ticked it.)
Maybe I'm weird but I don't want stuff I've labelled ending up in spam. I've never seen one of these messages being actual spam, usually just a mailing list posting.
I really want the ability to add a time delay to emails before they're sent. It's such a simple feature, I don't know why it hasn't been added yet.
When you send a message, you have the ability to Undo that sending for about ten seconds. It's in the yellow banner at the top.
That's not what I mean. I want to be able to write an email and specify that it should be sent at a certain time in the future, rather than right now.
I wish it would stop suggesting everyone I email join GMail!