EchoNote 1.0.2: Fedora RPM + new icon

EchoNote 1.0.2: installs like a normal Fedora app, now with its own icon.

• New: RPM package for Fedora. It installs to /opt/EchoNote with an app-menu entry and AppStream metadata, so EchoNote appears in GNOME Software → Installed and can be uninstalled from there.
• New EchoNote app icon.
• Launch at login now also works for the RPM install.
• Gemma 4 E2B (Apache-2.0) is the default local model for organizing notes (since 1.0.1). Everything runs on your computer.

Install

# Fedora / RHEL (recommended)
sudo dnf install ./echonote-1.0.2.x86_64.rpm

# Any other distribution: portable AppImage
chmod +x EchoNote-1.0.2-x86_64.AppImage && ./EchoNote-1.0.2-x86_64.AppImage

The first launch downloads and SHA-256-verifies the models (2.7 GB) from Hugging Face. After that EchoNote works offline. Requirements: x86-64 CPU with AVX2, ~4.5 GB free RAM, ~3 GB disk. Tested on Fedora 44 / GNOME 50.

Uninstall: GNOME Software → Installed → EchoNote → Uninstall (or sudo dnf remove echonote). To also remove your notes and models first, use Settings → Delete all data. Full steps are in the README.

Coming from the AppImage? Your notes are kept. If you created your own menu entry for the AppImage (~/.local/share/applications/echonote.desktop), delete it, otherwise it hides the RPM's entry.