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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
401 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
402 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
403 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
404 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
405 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
406 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
407 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
408 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
409 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
410 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
411 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
412 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
413 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
414 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
415 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
416 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
417 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
418 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
419 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
420 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
421 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
422 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
423 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
424 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
425 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
426 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
427 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
428 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
429 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
430 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
431 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
432 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
433 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
434 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
435 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
436 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
437 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
438 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
439 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
440 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
441 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
442 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
443 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
444 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
445 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
446 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
447 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
448 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
449 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
450 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
451 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
452 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
453 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
454 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
455 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
456 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
457 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
458 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
459 Rename default Contact form category #4703
460 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
461 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
462 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
463 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
464 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
465 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
466 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
467 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
468 Add layouts into the search index #5128
469 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
470 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
471 [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
472 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
473 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
474 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
475 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
476 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
477 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
478 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
479 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
480 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
481 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
482 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
483 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
484 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
485 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
486 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
487 Better Book navigation links #4879
488 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
489 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
490 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
491 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
492 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
493 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
494 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
495 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
496 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
497 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
498 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
499 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
500 Cache settings via admin section #1434

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