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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 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
202 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
203 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
204 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
205 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
206 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
207 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
208 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
209 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
210 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
211 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
212 Trim textfields? #6386
213 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
214 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
215 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
216 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
217 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
218 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
219 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
220 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
221 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
222 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
223 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
224 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
225 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
226 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
227 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
228 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
229 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
230 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
231 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
232 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
233 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
234 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
235 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
236 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
237 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
238 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
239 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
240 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
241 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
242 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
243 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
244 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
245 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
246 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
247 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
248 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
249 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
250 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
251 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
252 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
253 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
254 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
255 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
256 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
257 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
258 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
259 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
260 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
261 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
262 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
263 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
264 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
265 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
266 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
267 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
268 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
269 Double click prevention #6393
270 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
271 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
272 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
273 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
274 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
275 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
276 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
277 [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
278 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
279 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
280 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
281 uuid and entity import / export #890
282 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
283 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
284 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
285 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
286 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
287 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
288 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
289 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
290 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
291 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
292 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
293 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
294 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
295 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
296 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
297 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
298 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
299 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
300 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247

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