F19 : what happened to gnome-panel?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 15:10:50 +0200,
   Jouk Jansen <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I just tried to upgrade from F18 -> F19 (using fedup). After the upgrade I
>seem to have lost gnome-panel. It does not work anymore and no package of
>that name can be found.
>For me GNOME3 is only workable because I have access to the "old" panel
>which works at least as 10 times as efficient (in number of mouse
>movements/clicks) as the "new" animated way.
>Is there any chance that gnome-panel gets back?

You have some options to get something similar, run the MATE desktop, run 
the XFCE desktop, use the gnome-classic extension.