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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 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
902 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
903 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
904 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
905 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
906 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
907 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
908 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
909 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
910 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
911 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
912 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
913 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
914 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
915 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
916 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
917 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
918 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
919 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
920 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
921 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
922 uuid and entity import / export #890
923 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
924 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
925 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
926 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
927 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
928 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
929 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
930 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
931 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
932 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
933 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
934 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
935 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
936 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
937 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
938 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
939 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
940 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
941 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
942 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
943 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
944 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
945 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
946 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
947 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
948 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
949 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
950 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
951 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
952 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
953 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
954 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
955 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
956 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
957 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
958 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
959 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
960 Allow altering image style urls #5745
961 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
962 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
963 [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
964 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
965 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
966 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
967 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
968 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
969 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
970 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
971 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
972 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
973 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
974 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
975 Use config for color module palettes #2554
976 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
977 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
978 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
979 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
980 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
981 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
982 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
983 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257

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