The current (horizontal-tabs) dialog in LO Draw/Impress has separate tabs for "Alignment" and for "Text", while "Alignment" is an aspect of text properties, and with the text direction appearing under "Alignment" (while it is not an aspect of alignment). Moreover, the two tabs are each partially empty, not fully using up their area. Finally, there is no opportunity for the 'mockup-preview' area to reflect settings in the text tab, like the padding ("Spacing to borders"). I suggest we consider unifying the two tabs.
Can you please add a screenshot of the affected dialogs. I do not understand about which dialogs you report.
Created attachment 199262 [details] The 'Text' and 'Alignment' tabs of the Drawing Object Style dialog (side-by-side) As requested: Two screenshots, placed side-by-side, of the dialog with each of the two tabs selected - merged into a single. taken with Version: 25.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
I'll also note that I am not 100% certain that they can be combined in a completely pleasing way. That's why I said "consider" (and I've changed the title accordingly.)
Created attachment 199263 [details] SmallerDialog I usually use these dialogs with smallest width/height and then there is not enough place to combine them.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #4) Even with your settings, it seems that about 50 of the "net area" of each of the tabs is empty. With some cleverness, unifying the two may be possible so that you won't have to scroll or increase the dialog size.
Not a fan of combining. Yes they both apply to styling of Text but the panel would end up too crowded or over size to accommodate the full set of widgets and guides. Alignment is a pretty clean break to keep on its own panel, as it is now. It does feel like the 'Text direction' listbox could be moved to the Text panel from the Alignment panel. Otherwise leave them alone.
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Obviously there is a difference how Windows and Linux present dialogs. Happens also for the about dialog, see bug 164351. The space is not sufficient for both tabs (when shrinked to the intended size), and the combination makes not much sense. => WF