If you want to have an Elive icon on the left for your apllications, in place of the ^ symbol there --- use this theme (only the icon is added to the default dark theme):
http://triantares.ddns.net/Elive/elive_default_dark_svg.edj
Here's what it looks like on my machine, both pager and bar have auto-hide enabled, so as not be in my way. 
And for further E24 stuff, there's some tips&tricks in this post:
