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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
201 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
202 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
203 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
204 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
205 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
206 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
207 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
208 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
209 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
210 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
211 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
212 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
213 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
214 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
215 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
216 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
217 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
218 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
219 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
220 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
221 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
222 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
223 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
224 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
225 Trim textfields? #6386
226 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
227 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
228 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
229 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
230 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
231 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
232 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
233 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
234 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
235 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
236 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
237 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
238 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
239 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
240 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
241 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
242 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
243 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
244 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
245 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
246 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
247 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
248 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
249 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
250 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
251 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
252 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
253 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
254 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
255 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
256 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
257 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
258 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
259 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
260 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
261 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
262 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
263 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
264 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
265 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
266 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
267 [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
268 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
269 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
270 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
271 uuid and entity import / export #890
272 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
273 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
274 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
275 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
276 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
277 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
278 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
279 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
280 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
281 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
282 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
283 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
284 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
285 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
286 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
287 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
288 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
289 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
290 Double click prevention #6393
291 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
292 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
293 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
294 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
295 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
296 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
297 [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
298 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
299 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
300 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608

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