[development] theming local tasks (a.k.a. tabs)

Two issues on d.o that have received very little traction: http://drupal.org/node/371453 http://drupal.org/node/521852 The problem is that theme_menu_local_task($link, $active=FALSE) is passed very little information, making it impossible to mark up a secondary link any differently from a primary link. So is there some secret way to do this? Or do these issues have little traction because so few of us ever run into this? Note that I realize there are wrappers which surround links, and these may have primary or secondary class associated with them. But for my purposes that's not sufficient. I need to change the actual markup of the links, the wrapper classes just don't do it for me. -Dave