Has anybody know some work-arounds for deficiencies with the layer properties tool?

For example:

-If I click on the name column header I would expect it to change the order of the layers (it doesn't)

-If I hold CTRL I would hope it would let me select multiple rows, it fails at that aswell. This would be useful to make all selected layers the same colour, or delete multiple layers etc.

-If similarly, SHIFT normally selects a block, but in this form it does not.