Well, I just got e17 under pdaXii13 up and running on my Akita. My biggest hurdle was upgrading from Akita base to full. Console commands and Linux newb lead to much head stratching and google searches. Reminder to self to write up detailed upgrade instruction on Tyrannozaurus for newbs like me.
Meanie, your e17 packages works great! Thank you very much. Unfortunately, it loses my taskbar customizations when I reboot. It keeps resetting to your settings. I'm not a fan of the CPU tracking or panels but, I like my Start and Volume showing. It does remember my theme switch so that's fine. I think I'll switch to ClearLooks since I like my blues and lighter themes.