stepper dependency on material icons

[janisp]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

bug

What is the expected behavior?

Texts are not printed on the screen instead of the icons if the icon set is not present.

Brownie points:
I can set up another icons from another icon sets (e.g. FontAwesome)

What is the current behavior?

stepper component has the dependency on material icons. If material icons are not used, it's rendered as text on the screen.

What are the steps to reproduce?

Index.html line 24 adds the necessary icons. If that line is commented out, icons will faill and text is printed on screen instead of icon.
Plunker template: https://plnkr.co/edit/n4ry3CkDsvV22aX4h5lo?p=preview

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

I want to use FontAwesome icons (and I don't want to bundle the Material icons just for this one component)

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Material 2.0.0-beta.11
Angular 4.4.3

Is there anything else we should know?

Thanks for the Stepper component!

[jlkeiper]

I would be okay with a svgIcon input, or a way to inject a template to be used in place of the icon.

[sam-lex]

or an option to keep the numbers (no icon change).

[josehernandezv]

Any news on this?

[dfront]

you can set [completed]="false" on md-step and you will have only numbers instead of icons!!