I've personally found a work around for this issue that is not too bad, and every few weeks I run through my opened issues to be sure none of them is obsolete, forgotten, or stuck/useless.
I am OK closing this, since I've opened this in the first place, unless others do want to go for something like you outlined in #671.
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