I believe this patch is ready for reconsideration.

I will incorporate this change in my revision for D6713,

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.

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.

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.