feat: enable secondary label for macOS menu (#46887)

* feat: enable secondary label for macOS menu

* Update shell/browser/ui/cocoa/electron_menu_controller.mm

Co-authored-by: Robo <hop2deep@gmail.com>

* fix for lint

* update docs for sublabel

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Co-authored-by: Robo <hop2deep@gmail.com>
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[About Information Property List Files][AboutInformationPropertyListFiles]
for more information.
### Menu Sublabels
Menu sublabels, or [subtitles](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsmenuitem/subtitle?language=objc), can be added to menu items using the `sublabel` option. Below is an example based on the renderer example above:
```js @ts-expect-error=[12]
// main
ipcMain.on('show-context-menu', (event) => {
const template = [
{
label: 'Menu Item 1',
sublabel: 'Subtitle 1',
click: () => { event.sender.send('context-menu-command', 'menu-item-1') }
},
{ type: 'separator' },
{ label: 'Menu Item 2', sublabel: 'Subtitle 2', type: 'checkbox', checked: true }
]
const menu = Menu.buildFromTemplate(template)
menu.popup({ window: BrowserWindow.fromWebContents(event.sender) })
})
```
## Setting Menu for Specific Browser Window (_Linux_ _Windows_)
The [`setMenu` method][setMenu] of browser windows can set the menu of certain