Auto discovery of LaTeX distribution

[sebbrudzinski]

On Windows it is currently required to point the application to the LaTeX distribution directory in the application settings. This can be improved by adding some basic auto discovery of installed LaTeX distribution, in case nothing has been set in the application settings. The user settings should of course always have priority over auto-discovery.

[revanth844]

I started on this project only today, cloned the code and built it. For the first time when running the application, no preview was available. When trying to export PDF, nothing was happening after file-selection. Only after looking into the logs, found that pdflatex is not configured yet. This should ideally be shown as message-box, as it is a core requirement.
Typical users will not be aware of logs/output console, while working on an editor.
Please let me know if you agree.

[sebbrudzinski]

@revanth844 That sounds like a great addition to me

[WhiteHsu]

@revanth844
How about the progress and status on this enhancement? :-)

[revanth844]

I'm sorry, I couldn't progress on this enhancement, at all. It took me whole night to just download LaTeX libraries and since then I've been struck with my regular work.

[WhiteHsu]

@revanth844
That's OK. There's no hurry. Please take your time and let us know if you need any support. Thank you. :-)