Back on May 1st, Travis announced on the vw-dev mailing list that listbox selection behavior was changing (this will be visible to a wider audience once we go to release later in the summer. I'll just repeat what Travis posted on the mailing list:

A couple of builds ago, we finally got around to making our lists semi-modern in their interaction model. This means that you don't toggle off in a list without using a modifier key to do so. Also, we now use the apple/command key on Apple (tho the ctrl works as well), so Mac users can finally multi select in lists the same way the rest of their apps do. Also, on a button-2 click (to raise the menu), we now select. Which is also standard behavior.

It has some interesting affects on long time users of VW tools. New/younger users are just happy that it now feels more like what they're used to. But for the rest of us... we've gotten used to two side affects of the old behavior, which may take a bit of memory-muscle therapy to get used to, but it's not too bad, I got over it in a couple of days of occasional giggles at myself. One is the "pull back scope" thing in the browser, which Georg describes. You learn to use the modifier key or just select the item above and back on. It was interesting that I *naturally* do that in column view mode of the Apple Finder (which is kinda like the 4 list browser layout). But didn't naturally do so for VW. The human brain is a cool thing.

The other thing is that we're used to the pattern of selecting an item in a list, and then *anywhere* in the list, right clicking for a menu to operate on the item we just selected, even tho the mouse may be somewhere else in the list now. What will happen with the new behavior is that you'll end up selecting the item you've moved to. So the first memory-muscle that gets therapy (at least along my path to recovery) is that you start making sure where you menu-click at. You learn to left-click -> right click in the same spot. The second, is that you begin to realize, "I don't need the left click, I can just optimize that out of the loop now." This is standard behavior. And once I got used to it, I find I do like it better. Not just for the consistency aspect.

It's consistent with standard platform behavior, but something of a change for long-time VW users - I'm still getting used to it, especially with the right click behavior. The important thing is, it works the way any newcomer to the tools would expect it to work now.