Adding short-cuts or additional information to Application Menu Item (How to improve)

[vdrasutis]

To be ab
In the able add additional information to application menu Item control:

<ControlTemplate x:Key="ApplicationMenuItemTemplate"
                 TargetType="{x:Type fluent:MenuItem}">

I changed the "textBlock" named element like this (to bind description to the right side):

<TextBlock x:Name="textBlock"
                   Width="Auto"
                   Height="Auto"
                   Margin="9,3,3,3"
                   VerticalAlignment="Center"
                   Grid.Column="1"
                   TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis">
            <InlineUIContainer>
                <Grid Width="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=TextBlock},Path=ActualWidth}">
                    <TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Header}" />
                    <TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Description}" TextAlignment="Right" />                        
                </Grid>
            </InlineUIContainer>
        </TextBlock>

And added additional rectangle after this block:

<Rectangle Grid.Column="2"
                       HorizontalAlignment="Right"
                       Margin="0,4,23,4"                           
                       Width="0" />

To add space equal to the split drop down button at the end.

By this simple change you can do like that:

<fluent:MenuItem x:Name="NewDocumentButton"
                             Command="ApplicationCommands.New"
                             Icon="Images\NewDocument_32x32.png"
                             Header="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=Command.Text}"
                             Description="Ctrl+N"    />

[vdrasutis]

In commit 00dfd62 > The example looks like this:

[vdrasutis]

One problem in this improvement that for one of the MenuItem`s Width has to be set. If Width are not set then the Header and Description text will be merged (Did not find how to do that menu were expanded that it mathces Header and Description text lenght).