That's something I didn't like with the N9 - you could sort alphabetically or by status, but if you did the latter, you could no longer scroll the letters on the right quick-scroll pane as Meego wouldn't know whether you'd like to jump through the online or offline letters (does Sailfish even have that scollpane?) I usually have many more offline than online contacts, so it's a PITA to scoll through them when sorting by status.

Not sure how to solve that, except some heuristics which figure out if one status is > 70% than the other and then have "Online / Away / A / B / C / D..:" or so as quick scroll-pane. Or maybe just do it always like that assuming people have more online than offline contacts and be done with it.

Sorry for the rambling...