[Bug 163675] LO currently has "Right" & "Left" tabs - but they're really "From Start due Start" and "From Start due End"

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163675

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> Renaming sounds reasonable (although making it harder to understand for LTR
> users)

Well, we can do two things to address that hardship:

1. Only rename if full RTL support is enabled.
2. Add actual "Left" and "Right" tabs; the distinction helps clarify the
functionality.

(and these two can both be done.)

Note, however, that this will be inconsistent with our choice for alignment: We
say "align left" and "align right" even though they're "align start" and "align
end".

> but we probably cannot change the icon to indicate whether the start
> is left or right since the paragraph properties may be configured as a style
> and depend on the page style, which is unknown at the time of configuration.

One possible approach to this would be to introduce a
mini-preview/illustration, in the Tabs pane, for individual tabs. That preview
could show both an LTR paragraph and an RTL paragraph; or be click-switchable
between RTL and LTR.

Granted, that would be quite a bit of work.

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