I have been working on the basic code off and on for the past week or two getting it working to the point that I'm ready to begin non-root requiring file operations. I needed to learn a new Glade, the new GTK3 interface, how Python uses GTK3, and have recently switched to vim and have been tweaking it along the way as well.
Today, I have learned the Markdown language for posting on the Wiki and developed the first Wiki page.
Later, I hope to start saving the .desktop file to the ~/.local/share/applications/ directory and see how it works. I'll be following the development course outlined in the Future Plans section of the Wiki
In case you are interested, here is a picture of my development environment using vim: