feat(material/slide-toggle): enabling custom icons through directives #31758
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Reasoning:
The M3 specification does not clarify which icons are acceptable to be used within the thumb of the mat-slide-toggle component. Therefore, it would be a benefit to allow developers to customize the thumb icon.
Changes
New Directives
Introduces 4 directives:


matCheckedIcon
,matUncheckedIcon
,matCheckedDisabledIcon
, andmatUncheckedDisabledIcon
These, used in conjuction with<mat-icon>
s or svgs will enable custom icons to be injected into the thumb of the slide-toggle as per the m3 spec.Reworked
hideIcon
DirectiveReworks hideIcon directive to enable hiding icons based off 4 strings: "both", "checked", "unchecked", and "none".
Casts true and false to "both" and "none" respectively. Casts undefined to "none" and "" to "both".
Reference:
M3 Spec
Implements #28977