Merged Contact - Primary Contact

I suggest that pidgin decide which contact to use for "merged" contacts by their order. For example if our first contact is offline or away Pidgin should use the second contact. If the second contact is away go to the third (etc.). Right now it appears to go by IM name rather than order in the list, so it tries to use my friend's AIM which is not my preferred IM protocol for him.

Thanks for a great product - this update would add to Pidgins already awesome features.
Nic

PS. It could be a plugin or something too. Or possibly just have a "preferred" IM order where you could set all your used protocols in an order they should be used for merged contacts.