choosing typical desktop applications

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Nautilus pulls in a lot of GNOME dependencies, so if the rest of the
system is XFCE you'll end up shipping both GNOME and XFCE libraries,
configuration systems, etc which will probably result in an unholy
mess like Linux Mint:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/linux-mint-12-rc-the-greatest-hits/

Just an opinion; maybe I'm just too influenced by the "every piece is
native and integrated" philosophy of elementary project.

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shnatsel