📝 icon theme: add docs

Signed-off-by: Wei Zhang <kweizh@gmail.com>
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## Theme
`lsd` can be configured with a theme file to set the colors.
`lsd` can be configured with theme files to set the colors or icons.
Theme can be configured in the [configuration file](#configuration)(color.theme),
### Color Theme
Color theme can be configured in the [configuration file](#configuration)(color.theme),
The valid theme configurations are:
- `default`: the default color scheme shipped in `lsd`
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- relative name: check the themes under XDG Base Directory, e.g. ~/.config/lsd/themes/<theme-file-name>.yaml
- absolute name: use the file path and name to find theme file
Check [Theme file content](#theme-file-content) for details.
Check [Color Theme file content](#color-theme-file-content) for details.
### Theme file content
#### Color Theme file content
Theme file use the [crossterm](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm)
to configure the colors, check [crossterm](https://docs.rs/crossterm/0.20.0/crossterm/style/enum.Color.html)
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Please also notice that an empty theme is **NOT** supported due to
[a bug in serde lib](https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/issues/86).
### Icon Theme
Icon theme can be configured in a fixed location, `LSD_CONFIG_DIR/themes/icons.yaml`,
for example, `~/.config/lsd/themes/icons.yam` on macOS,
please check [Config file location](#config-file-location) to make sure where is `LSD_CONFIG_DIR`.
As the file name indicated, the icon theme file is a `yaml` file.
Check [Icon Theme file content](#icon-theme-file-content) for details.
#### Icon Theme file content
lsd support 3 kinds of icon configuration:
- icons-by-filetype
- icons-by-name
- icons-by-extension
The default icon theme scheme shipped with `lsd` can be check in [icon theme source code](src/theme/icon.rs), we will load the default theme, and overwrite it with user defined parts, here is a example for icon theme.
lsd icon theme support both nerd font and Unicode in the same time, you can use any one to config the theme, or even combine them.
nerd font:
```yaml
icons-by-name:
.trash: 
.cargo: 
.emacs.d: 
a.out: 
icons-by-extension:
go: 
hs: 
rs: 
icons-by-filetype:
dir: 
file: 
pipe: 
socket: 
executable: 
symlink-dir: 
symlink-file: 
device-char: 
device-block: ﰩ
special: 
```
Unicode:
```yaml
icons-by-name:
.trash: 🗑
icons-by-extension:
rs: 🦀
icons-by-filetype:
dir: 📂
file: 📄
pipe: 📩
```
When creating a theme for `lsd`, you can specify any part of the default theme,
and then change its colors, the items missed would fallback to use the default colors.
Please also notice that an empty theme is **NOT** supported due to
[a bug in serde lib](https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/issues/86).
## External Configurations
### Required