GridView still lacks spacing property after 10+ years — community repeatedly asking

It is frankly shameful that after more than a decade, the GridView component in QML still lacks a basic spacing property — something developers have been repeatedly requesting since at least 2012.

This issue has been raised multiple times:

• QTBUG-38350 (opened in 2014)

• QTBUG-116206 (opened in 2023)

And discussed at length in community forums:

• https://forum.qt.io/topic/19775/solved-qml-gridview-and-spacing-between-children/4

• https://forum.qt.io/topic/101840/why-there-is-no-spacing-property-for-gridview

The proposed workarounds are simply not acceptable:

• Using cellWidth and cellHeight to fake spacing leads to non-centered items, breaking layouts visually.

• Wrapping delegates in nested Item elements just to simulate spacing is against QML best practices, adds unnecessary complexity, and reduces performance — especially on large models.

It's hard to justify why GridView lacks a feature that Grid, Row, and Column all support. This creates inconsistency and frustration for developers trying to build modern, responsive UIs.

At this point, it's not just a missing feature — it's a credibility issue.