Expose settings for overriding selection color and selection symbol for vector layers (Request in QGIS)

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Request for documentation

From pull request qgis/QGIS#53977
Author: @nyalldawson
QGIS version: 3.34

Expose settings for overriding selection color and selection symbol for vector layers

PR Description:

Allows for users to control whether a specific color or symbol should be used in place of the defaults for a particular layer. This is useful to improve the visibility of selected features with certain symbology. E.g:

• if the layer uses a yellow color by default then the standard yellow selection won't be visible
• if a line layer uses a thin symbol, then coloring the lines might not make them visible enough -- in this case overriding the symbol with a thicker line can help
• if the layer uses raster symbology or gradient fills/lines/shapeburst with color ramp symbology, then the default selection color is not applied at all. In this case the user can now set a specific simpler symbol to use for selected features in the layer.

Fixes qgis/QGIS#14467
Fixes qgis/QGIS#19242
Fixes qgis/QGIS#21828
Fixes qgis/QGIS#24593
Fixes qgis/QGIS#22778

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