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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 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
202 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
203 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
204 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
205 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
206 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
207 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
208 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
209 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
210 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
211 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
212 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
213 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
214 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
215 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
216 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
217 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
218 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
219 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
220 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
221 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
222 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
223 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
224 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
225 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
226 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
227 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
228 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
229 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
230 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
231 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
232 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
233 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
234 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
235 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
236 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
237 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
238 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
239 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
240 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
241 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
242 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
243 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
244 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
245 [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
246 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
247 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
248 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
249 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
250 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
251 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
252 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
253 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
254 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
255 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
256 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
257 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
258 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
259 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
260 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
261 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
262 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
263 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
264 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
265 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
266 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
267 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
268 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
269 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
270 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
271 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
272 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
273 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
274 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
275 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
276 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
277 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
278 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
279 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
280 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
281 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
282 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
283 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
284 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
285 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
286 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
287 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
288 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
289 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
290 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
291 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
292 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
293 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
294 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
295 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
296 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
297 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
298 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
299 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
300 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583

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