[Epiphany] Must closing the last tab close the window?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt sc3d org>]

I just tried Epiphany 1.0 on my RedHat 9 system. I was attracted by its
promise of lack of clutter and concentration on web browsing, and it seems
to deliver. I have one gripe, however: that unlike Abiword (or Opera),
closing the last tab in the last window closes the app.

I've trawled through the discussion of tabbing in the mailing list
archives, but this mostly seems to deal with other issues.

So, I'd just like to ask whether it's necessary that Epiphany close when
it has no documents open, or whether it could have an empty window? This
isn't really a philosophical problem for me (in an ideal world, Epiphany
would behave as it does now) but a practical one: most Linux desktops
insist by design that an app must have at least one window open. Hence, if
I close the last tab, and Epiphany disappears, I have no way of
immediately opening another tab without rerunning the app, which takes
time (not to mention requiring a different keystroke).

I could just bind a keystroke to run "epiphany", as I notice that running
it more than once just opens a new window and doesn't create a new
process. However, this is still slower than opening a tab, and means that
I can't see multiple tabs in one window (so maybe I should just get a
non-broken WM? sigh...)

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