Sure, but to make it a dropdown, you’ll have to display the arrow next to the inherit alpha icon, which makes the whole thing wider. And I already think it is pretty wide. That’s why I would like to be able to hide these icons in case I have alpha lock & inherit alpha disabled and the layer unlocked. The icons can display when either inherit alpha is enabled, alpha lock is enabled or the layer is locked.
This can be achieved by moving the buttons to the top. So here’s my mock-up.
The idea behind the dropdown on the inherit alpha button is that it you can set it to whatever inherit alpha/ clipping mask mode you prefer. From then on, you click the button and it activates this for the selected layers.
You can see that removing the icons for layers that don’t have anything enabled makes it much easier on the eyes to identify when things are/ aren’t enabled. In addition, there’s much more space to display the names of nested layers.
Note that the inherit alpha icon may not make sense in this context, but it’s more about the UI here.