fiver,
you are in xfce, right?
if it was me i would start cleaning the house
- you don't (probably) need nautilus
sudo apt-get -s purge <each one of the listed above, one at a time>check what else is/would be removed (you are only simulating here, if the output looks ok remove the -s switch)
afaik the only pkg that you won't be able to remove is
libnautilus-extension1a, all the rest should be safe.
this is the first part (the easy one

)
second part:
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dpkg -l | grep gnome
now the list should be huge and you can't remove all of it (actually there's things there that if you remove you'll break your install: like keyring and networkmanager)
so here you have to look for the obvious:
- gnome-shell
- gnome-terminal
- gnome-system-monitor
(there's a few more that i don't remember now

) but again always careful with those removals (watch what goes with it)
in the end (and after some trials) you will have a cleaner system.
EDIT:
got now those updates
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The following packages will be upgraded:
chromium chromium-browser chromium-inspector exim4-config grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin
grub2-common libpython2.7 python2.7 python2.7-dev python2.7-minimal tar
13 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
i'm in kde (and it's free of gnome intrusions

)