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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
401 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
402 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
403 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
404 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
405 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
406 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
407 [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
408 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
409 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
410 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
411 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
412 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
413 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
414 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
415 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
416 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
417 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
418 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
419 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
420 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
421 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
422 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
423 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
424 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
425 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
426 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
427 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
428 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
429 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
430 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
431 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
432 Create a printable Status Report #5821
433 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
434 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
435 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
436 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
437 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
438 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
439 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
440 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
441 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
442 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
443 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
444 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
445 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
446 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
447 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
448 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
449 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
450 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
451 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
452 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
453 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
454 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
455 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
456 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
457 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
458 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
459 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
460 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
461 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
462 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
463 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
464 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
465 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
466 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
467 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
468 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
469 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
470 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
471 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
472 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
473 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
474 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
475 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
476 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
477 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
478 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
479 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
480 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
481 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
482 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
483 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
484 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
485 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
486 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
487 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
488 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
489 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
490 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
491 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
492 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
493 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
494 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
495 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
496 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
497 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
498 [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
499 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
500 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284

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