How's enlightenment 17 on Arch?

Ok, I've reinstalled Arch about 5 times in the past month for numerous reasons, and i'm getting pretty sick of it. I now have a clean Arch install with X set up, but no DE/WM yet. I've tried KDEmod, but didn't really like the Windowsy-feel of it, Xfce, but I always get bored for some reason, LXDE and Openbox, but those are a little too hardcore for me as far as setup and configuration goes (probably the same with other WMs). I'm not sure if I even want to try GNOME anymore because back when I was an ubuntu user, I HATED GNOME so much. I don't even know why anymore, but I think it was just the overall usability was totally inefficient and counterintuitive.
It's not that full DEs are too much for my system; I have a laptop with 2GB RAM, 2GHZ intel core 2 duo, 335 MB of video RAM, and about 30GB HDD space partitioned to Linux.
I heard that enlightenment was what the developers like to call a "desktop shell", or whatever is in between a WM and DE. It sounded good to me seeing as I really appreciate the instantaneous response of WMs and the features and eye candy of DEs. Does E17 provide this perfect balance I'm looking for?
So I ask you, the Arch Linux community, how's E17?

General E stuff: http://www.e17-stuff.org
Fireball theme: http://www.e17-stuff.org/content/show.p … tent=71423
Awesome dragon wallpaper(animated): http://www.e17-stuff.org/content/show.p … tent=77911
Best.Icons.Evar.: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=88575
Nice E-appropriate Xcursor: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=27913
Enjoy.
Also, [protip:] load the "Bling" module for compositing in E. Just like everything else in E, it's fast and visually impressive(albeit buggy at times).

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