GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 69170
Article pane context menu needs extra click to dismiss
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If one right-clicks in the article display pane, the context menu offerring followup, reply and soforth appears. However, unlike most menus, it requires two left-clicks outside the menu to abort the menu, rather than the typical one.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1999-May/msg00237.html discusses the problems with popups in gtk 1.2's gtk text widget. This is fixed in CVS now.