Usability improvement: Quickly access the attribute table by double click

[tschmetzer]

Quickly access the attribute table by double click: e.g. when clicking on the layer's name. When clicking on the layer symbol, open layer property dialog.

I know there's already a preferences option to choose opening either the "Layer properties" dialog or the "Attribute table" view. If my suggestion doesn't make this option unnecessary we could add a third "split" option with a location (area) dependant functionality (which I personally would then opt as the default)

Here an example which is meant to demonstrate the intended double click areas. I marked the double click area for the properties dialog with orange color and the the double click area for the table dialog with dark blue color:

[andreasneumann]

hm - what's wrong with the preference? You can change your behavior as you wish?

Administrators likely want to have the "Open Layer Properties" by default, while "Editors/Operators" would probably prefer the opening of the attribute table.

By having the option to change the behavior, we already satisfy both needs.

Having behavior like this, where it depends on "where you double click" most likely adds to the confusion. I am not sure that this will enhance usability.

[tschmetzer]

Look at that, I just learned about the layer styling option for the layer's double click access :)

I think my point regarding usability here is not only about making things look easier in the first place but to provide the user with quick and specific action options. Efficiency is also one of the usabiliy goals if I remember correctly. Whatever, of course we need to opt what we can expect the user to be able to adapt to. But maybe let me first explain my point.

This is why I would see my idea as an enhancement: For pure administrators I understand they will primarily want to see the preferences. Yet users (like me) might want to have a quick double click access to layer properties, attribute table and maybe even layer styling at the same time. Of course in the beginning I imagine users will be confused about a different behaviour but I guess that if we find a way how to integrate at least two or at best even all 3 functionalities as mouse shortcuts at once users can access functionalities more specifically and therefore be more efficient.

The options I see to achieve this:

• Create at least two "click areas" as described and maybe make them configureable
• As it will probably be hard to implement more than two click areas maybe add a "three times click" for the third option

Example:

• when the user double clicks on the color square the layer styling dialog is opened
• when the user double clicks on the Layer's name the table dialog is opened
• when the user clicks three times on the Layers name the properties dialog is opened
  E.g. the (default) behaviour of the double click/three times click on the layer name can be switched in the settings/options.

Another option could be to introduce a new symbol to the left or right of the layer name but that option would probably overload the look of the layer panel and is personally not my favourite.

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[tschmetzer]

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