Prevent opening of Layer Properties when double-clicking on visibility checkbox in Layers Panel

[jfbourdon]

Feature description.
The idea is to prevent the Layer Properties window to open when clicking on the visibily checkbox in Layers Panel. I often want to rapidly check the difference between two layers so I check/uncheck the visibility checkbox of the first layer, but if I click too fast (double-click speed), the Layer Properties will open and I then need to close it.

Additional context
An alternative is to create a Mutually Exclusive Group, but it forces to have the layers in the same group and it adds some steps.

A way to prevent this could be to don't let a layer be selected when clicking on the checkbox (instead of the layer's name) (idea?)

I just found out that if the current selected layer is a group (the group name, so not really a layer), then you can click as fast as you want on the checkbox of any layer (inside or outside that group) without prompting the Layer Properties windows.

[uclaros]

Another alternative is to use the toggle visibility action, with a keyboard shortcut

[samsammurphy]

@uclaros how do we toggle visibility using a keyboard shortcut?

[uclaros]

You can assign any key you like through settings > keyboard shortcuts. There is a toggle selected layers and a toggle selected layers independently entry. The second one allows to select two layers, one on and one off, and with a single button change both on to off and off to on! If you're running an old version it will not be available as it was introduced I think in 3.14

[tobwen]

When I give QGIS workshops, this is always one of the most requested features.

[jfbourdon]

You can assign any key you like through settings > keyboard shortcuts. There is a toggle selected layers and a toggle selected layers independently entry. The second one allows to select two layers, one on and one off, and with a single button change both on to off and off to on! If you're running an old version it will not be available as it was introduced I think in 3.14

Just found that pressing the space bar when one ou multiple layers are selected toggle their visibility; an alternative to setting explicitly a keyboard shortcut.