http://www.macintouch.com/mosxreader10.2pt13.html

Selecting/deleting single file in List view is problematic:

Let's say you want to delete a file (or folder) and you are in List view. You click the name of the file you want to delete and hit Command-Delete. File does not move to Trash because the filename field, not the file, is selected (filename is highlighted for renaming).

In Mac OS 9, if this happened, you'd simply click Command-Delete once more and the file would move to the Trash. In Jaguar, not so: Command-Delete (multiple times) does nothing if the filename is selected.

This is very frustrating because in List view it is actually much easier to click on a file's name than to click on the file's tiny icon — filenames are almost always bigger targets to point at than the icons.

I'd prefer that clicking on a filename select the file, not highlight the filename for renaming. Clicking a second time on the filename should then highlight the filename for renaming. I believe this is the behavior that most people — Mac OS 9, Windows, and Linux users — are used to and just works better.