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These are features that you would most like to see included in future releases of Backdrop CMS.  All the issues you see here are issues tagged with the label "type - feature request" from the Backdrop CMS core issue queue. 

# GitHub Issue title Issue # Vote for this feature # of votes
901 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
902 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
903 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
904 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
905 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
906 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
907 Disable unused layout templates #5068
908 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
909 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
910 Cache settings via admin section #1434
911 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
912 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
913 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
914 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
915 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
916 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
917 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
918 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
919 Allow altering image style urls #5745
920 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
921 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
922 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
923 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
924 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
925 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
926 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
927 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
928 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
929 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
930 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
931 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
932 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
933 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
934 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
935 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
936 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
937 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
938 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
939 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
940 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
941 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
942 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
943 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
944 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
945 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
946 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
947 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
948 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
949 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
950 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
951 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
952 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
953 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
954 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
955 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
956 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
957 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
958 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
959 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
960 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
961 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
962 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
963 One click install for digitalocean #5628
964 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
965 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
966 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
967 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
968 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
969 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
970 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
971 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
972 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
973 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
974 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
975 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
976 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
977 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
978 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
979 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
980 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
981 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
982 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
983 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
984 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
985 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
986 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993

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