Description of Problem: Defaulting session to "save on exit without asking any questions" is a very bad idea. Taken by surprise I managed to mess up with it my desktop in no time at all and I have some experience with these matter. It turned out that it was easier to start again from scratch than try to rescue leftovers. To add insult to injury "control-center" icon was taken out from the panel. Newbies will have a very hard time to fish it out from "Programs->Settings->GNOME Control Center" submenu. If you really want to take it out from that panel then at least "Settings", if not just "GNOME Control Center" should be moved to the top level of main menu. Even with that somebody just starting will have a very hard time to figure out what to do not to have every configuration misstep saved without asking any questions. This blatantly violates the priciple of the least surprise. No idea what silently changed my defaults after an update. Nautilus? Seems fitting with the rest of this "design".
The control center is deprecated in favor of: open "Start Here" folder, open "Preferences" folder. Or open a Nautilus window and type preferences: for the location. Or type "nautilus preferences:" on the command line. Or go to the panel menu and select a specific control panel. The two bugs I would like to fix here are that the control center still appears in the panel menu, and the continuous autosave of the session (revert to save session if you ask for that on logout). However I'm not sure the latter will be feasible in time for beta3.
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
The auto-session-save should now be fixed.
Control center should not appear in the menu as of 1.4.0.1-12