What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:51:20 -0500,
  Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 17:44 +0200, cornel panceac wrote:
> 
> > 
> > oh, but should it start panels? or at least the gnomeshell?
> 
> Yes, it starts gnome-shell, unless your system is not capable of running
> it, in which case it starts gnome-panel+metacity.

There perhaps needs to be a check that gnome-shell is installed as well.
As I don't seem to have it installed and I don't get gnome-panel+metacity
started.