Settings that need faster access

[WHirsch]

Ability to set a drawing order for entire layers would save a ton of time. If we could set text layers in front, for example, a lot of steps would be eliminated. A hot key can be set up for "front of group" now. It would be nice to have the same options for the other drawing order commands.

I'd much rather see development of some kind of properties palette that can remain open always (perhaps it could be included in the project browser) than a pop up for properties. I can already see what layer an object is on by glancing at the status bar, and there's a default hot key to open the properties dbx, but I don't want to have to take any additional steps at all to see, or edit, all properties of a selection.

Having a quick way to change marquee selection behavior would be nice too, but not my highest priority.