After updating to gnome 2.10 I was really appalled by the new drive mouter applet as it was completely useless for me in this manner (HUGE icons, not configurable at all...). Here is a new ebuild that has a 'olddrivemount' use flag which reinstates the old applet (the archive is the last cvs version before the change. It should go into the files dir).
Created attachment 59393 [details] Updated ebuild
Created attachment 59394 [details] Archive with old drivemount code
This is totally unsupported, we cannot do this in the tree. The old code got ditched for a reason. If you have problems with the new drivemounter, you should probably take your suggestions upstream so it can be fixed up in future versions.