Attached is an updated ebuild based on the opensuse srpm. It includes the make-it-cool branch diff, as does the opensuse source rpm. This patch seems to solve any problems I have with the icecream graphical monitor as well.
Created attachment 152617 [details] icecream-0.8.0.ebuild icecream-0.8.0.ebuild
Created attachment 152619 [details, diff] files/icecc-make-it-cool.diff files/icecc-make-it-cool.diff from opensuse 10.3 source rpm.
tested on x86: ebuild works flawlessly.
Upstream included the patch into 0.9.0 which was just added to the tree.