[Bug 161956] Overhaul terminology on the "Text along Path" dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161956

--- Comment #6 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
The dialog had in its beginning the term "text baseline", that still occurs in
help and tips. But the term "baseline" has a special meaning in typography and
should therefore not be used here as term for the path. So in all cases use
'path' instead.

The dialog has no section headings in LO 7.6. Do we really need so many section
headings?

The current tooltip "Baseline Off" is wrong. Not the "Baseline" (the path) is
turned off, but the entire effect is turned off. I suggest a simple "Off".

The initial dialog had a clear distance between the "Off" button and the four
buttons that determine the type of the effect. That is missing here. The
dividing line is not clear enough. Is it possible to have a wide distance
between the 'Off' button and the other four buttons? Or align the "Off" button
with the left edge of the dialog window and the group of the four type buttons 
with the right edge of the dialog window?

Instead of heading "Style" the term "Type" might be better.

I think, that the terms "Rotate", "Upright", "Slant Horizontal" and "Slant
Vertical" are correct. They describe, which transformation is applied to the
individual characters. A text like the suggested 'Characters Perpendicular to
Path' instead of 'Rotate' is too long for a tooltip. It would be good for an
extended tip, but such does not yet exist for the buttons in the dialog window.

In content, the suggested heading 'Orientation and Alignment' is correct, but
it might be too long. Perhaps only 'Alignment'?
I disagree with 'Flip' instead of 'Orientation'. In all places in LibreOffice I
know, 'flip' is used synonym to 'mirror'. But the button here means, "Use the
path so as if the path had the inverted orientation." and that is unrelated to
mirroring.

I agree with changing "Position and Indent". Instead of the suggested 'Vertical
and Horizontal Offset' I would use only 'Offset'. The suggested text is too
long for the compact design of the dialog window.

Instead of the suggested heading 'Path, Contour and Shadow' I would divide the
buttons in two groups, one with heading 'Path and Contour' or only 'Path', and
the other with heading 'Shadow'.

The tooltip should not be 'Show path' instead of 'Contour' but 'Hide path',
because that is the action when the button is pressed. The tooltip for the
pressed button should then be 'Show path'. Is it possible to have a tooltip
depending on button state?

I agree with 'Add Text Shadow' -> 'Drop Shadow' and 'Text Shadow Slant' ->
'Slanted Shadow'.

When the buttons are divided in two groups, the heading "Shadow offset" could
be removed. It is clear then, that it is a setting for the shadow. Using
'offset' in the heading does not fit to shadow kind 'slanted shadow'.

Icons change when the shadow type changes, but the tooltips currently do not
change. In case of 'slanted shadow' it needs to be 'angle' and 'length',
currently it is 'distance'. The extended tip has an 'or'. That is not ideal.
Only the part that belongs to the respective shadow type should be used.

Is it possible to show one group of icons, fields and tooltips for case 'drop
shadow' and a different group at the same position in case of 'slanted shadow'?

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