It does take a while to get used to a new interface. I used MacFIBS from 1996 until just last year, but JavaFibs has grown on me a lot. Having all your invites appear in one window at the top right is much tidier than all the windows popping up everywhere. The programmable buttons are very cool. But mainly it's the ability to save matches and convert them to Jellyfish format for gnubg that I value.

As for keeping your list of 'readies' sorted by rating, well... dunno, guess we all find different details important. I miss having my buddies coloured and all their text in the shouts and tells following that colour (not just their names).

You can not have the player list sorted on two categories I'm afraid. If you are only interested in the ready players, you can use the filter buttons so you only will see the ready players. Then you can sort the list by their rating, which will give you the list of ready players sorted by their rating. Holding down shift while clicking on the tabs will reverse the sorting.

I guess i have never watched it that closely - the names stay sorted, i am nearly sure of that - as i say - i use it for running tourneys - and as far as i have noticed they stay in alphabetical order - and the same with the status list - once sorted, it stays sorted.  

I'm not sure but I think Jtemp may want to have it sorted by both ready and rating, so that ready ppl are shown at the top but are still kept sorted in rating order. This JF does not do. It only stays sorted by one category.