My latest patch, based on work originally started by Bèr, was just committed today. It expands on Bèr’s work by not only giving structure to hook_link items, but also to menu items returned from menu_primary_links() and menu_secondary_links(). It also introduces a new hook_link_alter() in the fashion of hook_form_alter(). Additionally, the syntax is influenced by forms api and I threw in a bunch of tweaks to make it very useful, like automatically adding class names to links, the #1 theme problem I run into over and over again.

If you want more details, read up on the docs I wrote (first 3 items) or check out the article I wrote about the practicalness of this patch.

So what’s next? Well I’d like to see theme(‘links’) return an actual list of links instead of a crummy string, so perhaps that…