The new Google Hangouts in Gmail option seems interesting, and while it shows my most recent contacts, most of them aren't online (some never are because of the Google account they use). Can I sort them by their online state, as the old chat does?
Gmail – How to just show online people in Gmail Hangout (formerly Talk/chat)
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Best Answer
No. A Google employee I know told me the following: "the idea is to free you from worrying if the person you are talking to is on mobile, on a tablet, in front of a computer, etc, and instead give you one channel by which to communicate."
For those of us who like to know exactly which friends are on mobile (or even online at all) this is a big step backward, but it is the direction Google wants us to go.
Your best bet is to run a multi-IM client like Pidgin or EBuddy, which has more flexible display options, and switch to Hangouts when your friends are ready to video chat.