There were some small bugs in that release. They are fixed in the darcs repository of ion3. I've compiled a patch for ion3-20051023.
Created attachment 71378 [details, diff] Patch for ion3-20051023 This will fix the statusbar, which isn't completely visible with ion3-20051023. The patch was compiled out of the darcs repository of ion3
Created attachment 71379 [details] updated ebuild Just the updated ebuild, with one epatch more.
Thanks very much Frank. Now in portage.