In D6713#125690, @mutlaqja wrote:

When I ran it, the Ekos capture module stretched vertically 830 pixels, that's above the max 800 pixels limit we have (so that it appears of small screens). Looks like some GUI work needs to be done. Also, the refocus stuff in the GUI are NOT disabled by default like the others. They have to be disabled by default and only be re-enabled again if there is a focuser detected.

On my Ubuntu Mate 16.04 system it is 720 pixels high - is there some sort of theme settings for KDE or Qt that might affects this on different systems?

I'll look at the default setting - I have the config Option and the checkbox off by default so that is odd.

I confirmed with no kstarsrc present the sheduled refocus checkbox is not selected by default- I'll keep playing with it to see if there is some way to trigger it on by default.

I am looking at how to make it enabled only when a focuser is connected but I'm not seeing a signal or interface in focus.cpp to do this easily. Looks like I could add a method to focus.cpp that is based on the class variable currentFocuser and can return if a valid focuser is attached or not?

Something like:

bool Focus::isfocuserConnected()
{

if (currentFocuser == nullptr)
    return false;

if (currentFocuser->isConnected() == false)
    return false;

return true;

}

It should probably be the same way Autofocus if HFR ...etc is enabled/disabled

Just built everything on a kubuntu 17.04 virtual machine and started a virgin run of Kstars. I decided working on Kstars in a KDE environment made more sense.

The height of the window is 720 pixels which confirms the results I was getting on a Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2 VM I originally developed the patch on.

The refocus option was not selected by default.

I will work on the enable/disable of the checkbox based on the availability of a focuser and resubmit the patch.