I really like this. I have often thought of how wonderful a GUI would be for patching the firmware files.
I always envisioned it having it prompt for the model of kobo, firmware version wanted and then download the firmware and patch files for the model and firmware version selected, extract them and then prompt the user for what to patch, and then display the end KoboRoot.tgz file. This should be possible as all the links are available for both the firmware and patch files...but this is just what I envisioned a GUI patcher to be.
Keep up the good work, wish I could help but I can't program.