If I follow you correctly, I love the idea, it hadnt occured to me. What I take you to mean is to put a tree view in a sidebar of sorts that you can visually see how all the subpatches ([pd blah]) relate. This is a great idea.
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 14:32, intent wrote:
Another idea: An "Explorer" like interface
At the left you see the arborescence of your patches, at the right the patch you select.
That way you can reach an abstraction easily without having to open/close all the intermediary levels.
Linium