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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 a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
202 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
203 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
204 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
205 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
206 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
207 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
208 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
209 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
210 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
211 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
212 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
213 Use config for color module palettes #2554
214 Trim textfields? #6386
215 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
216 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
217 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
218 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
219 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
220 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
221 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
222 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
223 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
224 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
225 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
226 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
227 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
228 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
229 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
230 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
231 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
232 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
233 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
234 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
235 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
236 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
237 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
238 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
239 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
240 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
241 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
242 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
243 [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
244 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
245 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
246 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
247 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
248 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
249 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
250 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
251 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
252 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
253 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
254 [WP] Media Library #3203
255 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
256 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
257 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
258 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
259 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
260 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
261 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
262 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
263 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
264 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
265 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
266 [D8] Autosave content #3426
267 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
268 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
269 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
270 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
271 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
272 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
273 Double click prevention #6393
274 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
275 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
276 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
277 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
278 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
279 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
280 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
281 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
282 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
283 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
284 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
285 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
286 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
287 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
288 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
289 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
290 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
291 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
292 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
293 Mobile first approach theme #4131
294 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
295 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
296 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
297 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
298 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
299 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
300 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179

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