To the kstars development team, are you working toward integrating the ASCOM replacement platform, ALPACA?
According to current information, the platform should be ready this year.
It will be open source, and cross OS platform capable.
Here is a link to it's webpage.
https://ascom-standards.org/Developer/Alpaca.htm
As long as the equipment manufacturers develop the drivers in time, then the astro applications developers can integrate that into their programs.

May it all come together.

Fivel