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You can use Nautilus without Gnome.

Problems: Some shortcuts don't work, like Q+Mod+Shift to log out.
The gnome panels don't show me the names of my workspaces and I don't know which workspace is still in use, so in order to close all programs I have to manually switch through all of them which is annoying.
The gnome panels take too much space. I already made them as small as possible and removed the bottom panel -- still.
I get pop up messages I don't want to get (like update notification).

And the most important thing: I just don't need Gnome.

I have managed to create a custom xsession with xmonad now. Will post more about this later.