Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Forced fallback mode still works through F18. I find it provides me
what I want from gnome2. It will be almost certainly going away in F19
(but hasn't yet in rawhide), but there is talk of providing something
similar via a gnome-shell extension.
"Going away" isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going
to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official
feature of Gnome 3.8.
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/01/25/gnome-3-7-at-the-halfway-mark/