I just updated kStars to 3.6.5 and while I like the blue color of the DSO outlines, when I use a red filter, I can't see them.

I've been using the color tint filter in OSX to get a totally red screen without my clumsy DIY slipcover, and I've been able to adjust pretty much everything else into various shades of red, I just can't change the color of the DSO outlines. Unfortunately I can't get an image of this as I guess the screen capture thing bypasses any of these filters.

I've looked through just about all menus and dialogs I can find. Obviously the color schemes one and then in another menu under Data > Manage DSO Catalogs > Colors, but nothing seems to change them. There are no other colors besides shades of red in my color scheme so it can't be anything there.

If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd be happy to try for a pull request as well. I feel like if we can change the colors of stars and all the lines and text, we should be able to change the color of DSOs and other things like this too.

Data --> Manage DSO Catalogs --> Select catalog & click "Color" on the right.

I tried that and it didn't work. Here is a screen recording showing what I'm doing/seeing. All the colors in this scheme are shades of red and I see no entry for DSO objects here.

Data> Manage DSO Catalogs > Select Catalog > Click "Colors" > Customize as desired for individual themes.
The Catalog you are most likely concerned with is Open NGC (ID 1)

Thank you both.

I found that when I clicked OK after adjusting the RGB sliders for the catalog colors, both the DSO Catalogs modal and the Catalog Colors modal would go behind the main kStars window. I was never actually clicking all the OKs that I needed to, to actually select the colors.

After going through it a few times (because it still doesn't totally stick), the DSOs eventually turned red so yea, it's not bulletproof, but it this is the way to do it and it does work eventually.

Thanks again!

Hi Jacob,

I'm the guy who overhauled the DSO stuff a while ago.
Looking at your screenrecording, I believe to see what might have been going on.

The objects that remained to the NGC catalog, but you changed the colors of the "User" catalog, as this was the row that was selected in the UI.

It's certainly not good UI design... I'll look into why I didn't put the color config in the canonical place...

Cheers,
Valentin

Ok, I went through my code and discovered that there is a facility to give sane default colors for catalogs. I just didn't bother to implement that for the catalogs...

Edit:
I added a default night color scheme for the ngc catalog. others are still tbd.
invent.kde.org/vboettcher/kstars-catalog...6e1d261f73351c969fcb