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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 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
202 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
203 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
204 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
205 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
206 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
207 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
208 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
209 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
210 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
211 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
212 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
213 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
214 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
215 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
216 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
217 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
218 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
219 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
220 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
221 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
222 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
223 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
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 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
229 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
230 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
231 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
232 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
233 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
234 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
235 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
236 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
237 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
238 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
239 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
240 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
241 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
242 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
243 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
244 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
245 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
246 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
247 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
248 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
249 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
250 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
251 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
252 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
253 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
254 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
255 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
256 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
257 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
258 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
259 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
260 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
261 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
262 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
263 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
264 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
265 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
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 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
270 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
271 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
272 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
273 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
274 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
275 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
276 [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
277 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
278 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
279 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
280 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
281 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
282 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
283 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
284 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
285 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
286 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
287 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
288 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
289 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
290 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
291 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
292 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
293 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
294 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
295 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
296 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
297 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
298 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
299 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
300 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588

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