In Mono/Gnome, how can I look up the icon for a mime type?

Question

Gnome.Icon and Gnome.ThumbnailFactory both want me to pass in a URI of a file whose icon I want -- I only have a MIME type, which I want to look up an icon for. Is there a GNOME C# API function which will give me what I want? Ideally the prototype would just be:

Gdk.Pixbuf LookupIcon (string mime_type);

Answer 1

Here's MonoDevelop's code to do this:

MonoDevelop SVN