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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
301 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
302 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
303 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
304 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
305 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
306 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
307 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
308 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
309 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
310 Add global site logo token #5871
311 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
312 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
313 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
314 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
315 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
316 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
317 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
318 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
319 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
320 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
321 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
322 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
323 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
324 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
325 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
326 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
327 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
328 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
329 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
330 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
331 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
332 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
333 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
334 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
335 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
336 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
337 Mobile first approach theme #4131
338 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
339 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
340 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
341 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
342 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
343 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
344 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
345 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
346 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
347 uuid and entity import / export #890
348 Add layouts into the search index #5128
349 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
350 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
351 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
352 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
353 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
354 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
355 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
356 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
357 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
358 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
359 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
360 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
361 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
362 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
363 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
364 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
365 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
366 Better Book navigation links #4879
367 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
368 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
369 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
370 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
371 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
372 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
373 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
374 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
375 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
376 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
377 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
378 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
379 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
380 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
381 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
382 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
383 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
384 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
385 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
386 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
387 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
388 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
389 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
390 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
391 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
392 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
393 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
394 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
395 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
396 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
397 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
398 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
399 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
400 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474

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