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CmdPal: Fix Dock context menu following active item in Command Bar (#46420)

## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR decouples the Dock control context menu from the item selected
in the Shell Page list / Command Bar.

- Adds a new property to the context menu to control whether it should
react to messages like `UpdateCommandBarMessage`
- The `DockControl` context menu no longer follows those messages

Additional changes:

- Ensures the context menu for Dock-selected search box position
reflects the Dock position (when the Dock is at the bottom, the search
box is also at the bottom)
- Consistently displays the dock item context menu even for items with a
single context menu action (instead of showing the Dock menu, which was
confusing)

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- [x] Closes: #46404
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Jiří Polášek committed
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Parent: 9afa1ec
Committed by GitHub <[email protected]> on 3/27/2026, 11:38:09 PM