# Features

- [Icons](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index.md): Deliver your application with icons.
- [Configuration](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration.md)
- [The KConfig Framework](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/_index.md): Add configuration options in your application and Plasma with KConfig and KConfigXT.
- [Introduction to KConfig](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/introduction.md): An overview of the KConfig classes and how to use them in your application code
- [Using KConfig XT](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/kconfig_xt.md): This tutorial introduces the main concepts of the KConfigXT configuration framework and shows how to efficiently use it in applications.
- [KDE Frameworks 6 porting guide](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/porting_kf6.md): Porting guide for KDE Config Modules to Qt6/KF6
- [Settings module (KCM) development](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/kcm.md): This tutorial will help you create a Plasma configuration module.
- [KConfigDialog](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/configuration/configdialog.md): The standard KDE QtWidgets configuration dialog
- [D-Bus](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus.md): Inter-Process communication using D-Bus
- [What is D-Bus practically useful for?](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/_index.md): Inter-Process communication using D-Bus
- [Introduction to D-Bus](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/introduction_to_dbus.md): An introduction to the core concepts of D-Bus from an application developer's perspective.
- [Accessing D-Bus interfaces](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/accessing_dbus_interfaces.md): A step-by-step guide to calling D-Bus methods and connecting to D-Bus signals using QtDBus.
- [Intermediate D-Bus](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/intermediate_dbus.md): Tips to make use of QtDBus when faced with problematic real-world interfaces.
- [Creating D-Bus interfaces](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/creating_dbus_interfaces.md): Learn how to expose functionality in your application by creating and using custom D-Bus interfaces. Covers generating the XML descriptions, instantiating interfaces at run time and setting up the bui
- [Using custom types with D-Bus](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/using_custom_types_with_dbus.md): Using custom types as arguments of D-Bus method calls.
- [D-Bus autostart services](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/d-bus/dbus_autostart_services.md): Turn your application into a D-Bus autostart service with this tutorial. This D-Bus feature, also known as "D-Bus service activation", will ensure that even when your application isn't running that D-
- [Create your own mouse cursor theme](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-1.md): Learn how to create custom mouse cursors.
- [Session management](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-2.md): Make your application aware of X sessions
- [Archives](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-3.md): KArchive, the convenient way to read and write to archives.
- [Desktop file](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-4.md): Let your application show up in the Launcher and in application menus.
- [KAuth](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/kauth.md)
- [Privilege Escalation](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/kauth/_index.md): KAuth, privilege elevation for your program
- [Using actions in your applications](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/kauth/using_kauth.md)
- [KIdleTime](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-5.md): Detect and handle system idling
- [Akonadi: personal information management](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/akonadi.md): Akonadi and the KDE PIM libraries allows you to manage personal information coming from multiple sources efficiently.
- [Debugging Akonadi Resources](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/akonadi/debugging_akonadi.md)
- [Using Akonadi in applications](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/akonadi/using_akonadi_applications.md): Displaying and modifying data provided by Akonadi
- [Concurrent programming](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-6.md): Concurrent programming using the ThreadWeaver framework
- [Solid](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-7.md): Hardware abstraction
- [Sonnet](/start/kde-developer-platform/readme/features/_index-8.md): Spellchecking made easy