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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] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
202 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
203 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
204 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
205 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
206 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
207 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
208 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
209 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
210 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
211 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
212 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
213 Add state_override function to core #4725
214 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
215 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
216 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
217 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
218 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
219 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
220 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
221 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
222 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
223 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
224 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
225 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
226 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
227 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
228 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
229 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
230 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
231 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
232 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
233 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
234 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
235 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
236 One click install for digitalocean #5628
237 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
238 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
239 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
240 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
241 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
242 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
243 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
244 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
245 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
246 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
247 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
248 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
249 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
250 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
251 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
252 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
253 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
254 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
255 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
256 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
257 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
258 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
259 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
260 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
261 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
262 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
263 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
264 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
265 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
266 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
267 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
268 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
269 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
270 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
271 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
272 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
273 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
274 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
275 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
276 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
277 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
278 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
279 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
280 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
281 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
282 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
283 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
284 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
285 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
286 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
287 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
288 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
289 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
290 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
291 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
292 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
293 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
294 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
295 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
296 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
297 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
298 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
299 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
300 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618

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