Guider binning

[Eric Dejouhanet]

We must indeed retain the Options mechanism, as this is core to Ekos and 
that database has all "live" settings, but I don't think it will be 
easily extendable to fork for all different devices.

The serialized Settings mechanism, on the other hand, is already a 
proven method with INDI drivers (although it is weakened there by the 
property define/undefine mechanism). I think it would be relatively 
clear for end-users to be able to associate a list of setting files with 
an Ekos profile. The Profile Editor UI would not suffer much from this I 
think.

There may be settings that pertain to targets too. For instance, 
full-frame focus should restrict to a circular border for FSQ scopes, 
but could also disregard the sensor central area because of a galaxy 
core. Alignment could require a different exposure based on the sky 
patch target. However, use cases are probably less numerous, and it 
would easily be possible for the end-user to create an Ekos profile for 
each target type by copying settings around anyway.

-- 
-Eric

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