Date and time in QML

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 9:37 PM Carl Schwan <carl at carlschwan.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>

Hey Carl,


>
> So I worked during Akademy to fix long standing issues with date time
> handling in QML. The solution I came up with, it to write a simple QGadget
> wrapped around QDateTime. I already have some draft MRs for both Merkuro
> Calendar and Kirigami Addons (date and time pickers) to then use this
> wrapper and this simplify a lot of quite error prone code. I suppose this
> would also help with the Plasma calendar widget and probably in other
> places in KDE.
>
> The big question is where to put this wrapper. My two draft MRs have a
> copy of this wrapper and I opened a MR in KCoreAddons
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/merge_requests/606 but
> this was rightfully pointed out that this doesn't fit perfectly the scope
> of this framework.
>
> The solution proposed would be to create a tiny framework for non
> graphical QML extensions and utilities, which I just did
> https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/kqmladdons
>
> Before asking sysadmin to move this to the framework namespace, does
> anyone has some feedback about this? Objections? Improvements suggestions?
> Do you have ideas how offer stuffs what would belong there?
>

Sounds like this could be well connected with the Kirigami bits that Marco
is working on?


>
> In term of timeline, ideally it would be great to have this released as
> part of framework before the dependency freeze of gear 26.12.0.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>

Cheers,
Ben
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