Treat the empty string as if it was a NULL icon name instead of
rendering GTK_STOCK_MISSING_IMAGE.
This used to be the previous behavior of GtkCellRendererPixbuf and
applications might still rely on it.
GtkIconHelper is a helper object to easily obtain a pixbuf from
different icon sources (e.g. a GIcon, an icon name, a stock id, ...).
Code is ported from GtkImage, which will be adapted in the next commit.