Modifying the columns on the tab of an Object Editor

The discussion in this 5.2 Pull Request (“citations gramplet: add date, page, confidence”) covers adding the same columns to the Citations tabs of Object Editors.

It addresses common issues of:

  • date columns sorting on the formatted text of the date instead of value (where the A of April dates makes them sort before the rest of the months)
  • tradeoff in default column widths to stay within the 800x600 guideline