Comment 2 for bug 784343

This isn't something which we want. Unity depends on Nautilus because Nautilus is used to draw the desktop, and Unity depends on the desktop for some things such as clearing of the global menu when all apps are closed. There are many other GNOME deps as well, such as gsettings, dconf, etc.

Sure, Unity can try moving a bit away from GNOME, but that is not what we want. As Marco said, 'Unity is a shell for GNOME' and if we try moving away, we'd have to write up many things from scratch, things which are already available in GNOME.

Invalid?