You can change the color of the dots on your mini-map
and I'll add more pics/info as I feel like or see fit.
Push the "black button" under where it says
"Add" and "Delete" to bring up the
"Friend Management" menu.
You can prally right-click a name on your flist too,
but that's what that mysterious button
(that people don't always realize is a button) does.
These are the groups and colors I made. I'll see how I like it.
The colors correspond to the colored dots on the mini-map,
hence you'll not only know when a friend is near you
but what class of friend it is.
After you've made groups and sent each friend
to the group you want them in, right-click on the name of the group
to choose a color for the group. You can also do other things
to the group's name, just pick what you want from the menu,
easy eh? *smiles*
This will help you decide on what class of friend you need more of,
if you didn't know already. The only downside is that
now you'll have to scroll through the flist to see who is on,
whereas before with everyone under one group it was
"whoever is on is at the top, rest are down further . . ."
I wish it had a total number of friends like 83/100 or it said
"Flist full, time to boot" when you had 100.