[SA] Add icons for selector combinator in alt-mode

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[SA] Add icons for selector combinator in alt-mode

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TL;DR
Selector combiator should have more alt-mode signal icons like ariphmetic & decider combinators.
What?
Currently, only those modes of operation support little signal icons:
  • Select input (index)
Those modes of operation have no parameters (except perioud of update), so they do not need any extra icons:
  • Random input
  • Stack size
  • Rocket capacity
However, these can benefit from adding icons:
  • Count inputs -> Icon of output signal
  • Quality filter -> Icon of quality, potentially with operator like for inserters
  • Qualirty transfer -> Icon of item to transfer (top), Icon of quality transfer into / icon of control signal (bottom)
    OR: If direct selection is static AND target signal is wildcard, they can be merged into a single signal of yellow (EACH) wildcard with quality icon in the corner, like so:
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    .
Why?
Currently, if you complicated setup regarding quality it is pretty impossible to determine which combinator does which without clicking on them.

No alt-mode:
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With alt-mode:
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And this is the easy setup.

See also
120131: [2.0.15] [SA] Selector combinator has the same icon for quality filter & quality transfer
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