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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 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
202 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
203 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
204 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
205 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
206 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
207 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
208 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
209 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
210 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
211 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
212 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
213 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
214 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
215 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
216 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
217 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
218 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
219 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
220 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
221 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
222 Seventy two theme #5928
223 Redirects write to json files? #4001
224 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
225 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
226 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
227 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
228 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
229 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
230 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
231 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
232 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
233 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
234 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
235 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
236 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
237 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
238 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
239 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
240 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
241 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
242 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
243 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
244 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
245 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
246 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
247 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
248 Custom Block contextual link #4390
249 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
250 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
251 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
252 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
253 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
254 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
255 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
256 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
257 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
258 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
259 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
260 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
261 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
262 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
263 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
264 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
265 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
266 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
267 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
268 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
269 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
270 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
271 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
272 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
273 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
274 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
275 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
276 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
277 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
278 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
279 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
280 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
281 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
282 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
283 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
284 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
285 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
286 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
287 Add layouts into the search index #5128
288 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
289 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
290 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
291 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
292 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
293 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
294 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
295 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
296 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
297 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
298 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
299 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
300 Trim textfields? #6386

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