visibility and layer selection - interaction

[reisrocks <reisrocks yahoo com>]

User story:

User has multiple layers (A B and C). All layers are kept switched off other than the layer currently being edited: A. When user wants to edit layer B, layer A has to be hidden (1 click), layer B has to be displayed (1 click) and selected (1 click).

That's a total of 3 clicks just to switch layers. Something which I find myself doing a lot is hiding A, showing B then I continue working.. only to find I'm still editing layer A.

Could possible solutions be:
- right-clicking the layer visibility Eye icon also enables the layer
and
- middle clicking the layer visibility Eye icon also selects it, and hides the previously enabled layer

The first solution reduces the number of clicks to 2 to switch layers, the second solution reduces it to 1 single click.

In the long run that would save the user a lot of redundant clicking. Small change to the interaction design, but I find this is slowing down my user experience.

Right-clicking the Eye icon to show all layers, or isolate that layer is a great key combo by the way. Very well thought out.

Oh and I'm using 78 layers, and my file is currently 3,457KB. I'm really impressed with the speed and stability despite the size of my file.. number of crashes so far: nill

Thanks for your consideration / comments.

Reis