gnome has the “gnome online account” that permits to connect a cloud (including google drive) to nautilus. Is there any plans to bring the same feature to Mate ?
It could be an added functionality of caja to open google drive or an own cloud or others clouds.
I know many would like to be able to read from google drive directly.
You could then rsync the drive over a local directory to have a backup of you cloud data.
Regards,
Bernard