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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 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
202 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
203 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
204 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
205 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
206 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
207 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
208 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
209 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
210 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
211 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
212 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
213 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
214 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
215 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
216 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
217 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
218 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
219 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
220 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
221 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
222 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
223 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
224 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
225 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
226 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
227 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
228 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
229 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
230 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
231 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
232 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
233 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
234 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
235 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
236 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
237 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
238 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
239 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
240 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
241 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
242 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
243 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
244 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
245 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
246 Create a printable Status Report #5821
247 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
248 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
249 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
250 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
251 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
252 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
253 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
254 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
255 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
256 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
257 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
258 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
259 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
260 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
261 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
262 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
263 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
264 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
265 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
266 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
267 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
268 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
269 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
270 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
271 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
272 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
273 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
274 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
275 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
276 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
277 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
278 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
279 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
280 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
281 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
282 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
283 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
284 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
285 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
286 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
287 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
288 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
289 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
290 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
291 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
292 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
293 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
294 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
295 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
296 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
297 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
298 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
299 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
300 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061

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