Add post install instructions for icon cache

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Documentation
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Open writing-apps/our-first-app/icons.md and start at the icon-cache instructions around line 53. Replace the recommendation to manually refresh the cache with instructions for adding the post-install command, and verify that the resulting guidance explains how the cache is refreshed automatically.

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Description

Good First Issue

Currently we recommend folks manually refresh their icon cache:

https://github.com/elementary/docs/blob/6c2feb20d5c8f796ffd6f181200417b790f565ff/writing-apps/our-first-app/icons.md?plain=1#L53

Instead we should recommend adding the post-install command to do it automatically

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