GNOME 3.0 worries

I'd like to advocate "integrity and connectivity".

If I knew that my data was safe(r) with gnome than with the alternative (xfce) - I'd switch
back in a minute (I'm on gentoo - there's some compilation involved here, would switch back
even faster otherwise ;). For example, if I'm reading some interesting webpage and
firefox/linux crashes (or I have to shut down in a hurry and killall -9 firefox) - the next
time I start firefox, I get the choice to restore the browser to where I broke off (to the
point that I get to keep browsing history and pretty much everything else). I'd love to have
this as a standard behaviour in gnome apps!

The second thing would be to have connecting my phone/pda do the right thing. (Admittedly it's
been a while since I last tried and was dissatisfied with the solultion.) Having connected a
phone should result in having gui access to contact list, alarms/reminders, storage and modem
without following four different howtos.