I think new taxonomy block should implement feature where taxonomy block allows items and item lists to be themed deppending on their term. of course if a given term is not custom themed yet then a default theme is used (plain list?).

one way to achieve this is with the following call.

$content = theme('taxonomy_block_list'.$term->name, $items);

the problem with the above code is that it needs check if function that i am calling exist, if not then redirect the call to some default theme function.

i dont know how to create patches so some one please do this. thank you.