Just a quick remark from the Off as I do Not have the time to check.

I think due to a proposal by @koppor we intentionally moved the columns from the left to the far right side... We should check that

Let us discuss the positioning of the special fields among the developers during the next devcall.

I think, we discussed that two years ago, but I don't remember. For me, moving it to the front is OK. But that might disturb new users of JabRef, because they first see the stars...

Do we need an additional preference? ^^

I could be nice to have the choice/option to either insert them in the beginning or end of the table . Another solution would be splitting the special columns and move only the stars/rating to the end of table.

@devBeginner We've now talked this through among the core developers.

Unfortunately, we've decided against this solution. Moving the fields to the front for all users is just too strong a thing to do and might upset users. After all, there might be people who are very happy with having them on the right side. A fixed hard-coded moving of the special fields is not the way to go.

This should be solved in an alternative way, either:

• Fixing the bug that prevents the manual resorting of special fields to be stored and saved among different sessions of JabRef
• Introducing a new preference option that manages the order of special fields as suggested by @koppor

We know that these things are not trivial, but ultimately they are a better way to address the underlying problem.

You're very welcome to take one of these directions and you can do so in this PR if you want.

@devBeginner Sorry not to hear any feedback from you. We will close this, but hope, you will continue working on it --> we will be happy to reopen then.