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Add an indicator that there are more tabs as currently visible

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Description

### Description

We use several tab controls in our web application and depending on screen size not all tab items are visible.
Some of our customers complained that they sometimes do not see any indication that there are more tabs.
I should mention that we are still on version 2 but as I noticed in the interactive demo "Scrolling tabs" on material-web.dev the behavior is still the same.

The tab control from Vaadin blends out the last visible tab if there are more and optionally shows a scroll button.
https://vaadin.com/docs/latest/components/tabs

That would be a nice feature.

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Start with the interactive demo’s “Scrolling tabs” behavior and review the existing tab control implementation. Define how users should be shown that additional tabs exist, including whether a scroll button is needed, then verify the behavior at different screen sizes and against the Vaadin tabs example.

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Assessment

Tech stack
scss
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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