Changing upstream bug. However it is marked wont fix...
Comment 15 seems pretty clear:
"As we already said, Empathy is a GNOME application and there is no GNOME
application closing tabs when pressing escape. Our goal is to offer a coherent
user experience integrated in the GNOME desktop; not to create a clone of
Pidgin or any other IM client."
Changing upstream bug. However it is marked wont fix...
Comment 15 seems pretty clear:
"As we already said, Empathy is a GNOME application and there is no GNOME
application closing tabs when pressing escape. Our goal is to offer a coherent
user experience integrated in the GNOME desktop; not to create a clone of
Pidgin or any other IM client."