Comment 10 for bug 723861

> I am about 100% certain it uses nautilus not gnome-panel.

the current oneiric code in nautilus-desktop-icon-view.c is

" nautilus_launch_application_from_command (gtk_widget_get_screen (GTK_WIDGET (data)),
        "gnome-desktop-item-edit",
        FALSE,
        "--create-new", desktop_directory, NULL);"

gnome-desktop-item-edit is a gnome-panel binary

note that the binary is not removed, only the context menu access to it is dropped, you can style type "gnome-desktop-item-edit" in the "run a command" entry for example or make a launcher to it