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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 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
402 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
403 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
404 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
405 Allow regions titles #2647
406 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
407 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
408 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
409 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
410 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
411 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
412 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
413 More useful tags for views #6268
414 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
415 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
416 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
417 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755
418 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
419 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
420 Group interdependent checkboxes visually #6013
421 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
422 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
423 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
424 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
425 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
426 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
427 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
428 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
429 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
430 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
431 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
432 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
433 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
434 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
435 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
436 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
437 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
438 [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
439 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
440 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
441 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
442 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
443 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
444 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
445 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
446 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
447 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
448 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
449 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
450 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
451 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
452 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
453 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
454 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
455 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
456 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
457 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
458 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
459 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
460 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
461 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
462 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
463 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
464 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
465 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
466 uuid and entity import / export #890
467 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
468 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
469 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
470 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
471 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
472 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
473 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
474 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
475 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
476 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
477 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
478 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
479 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
480 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
481 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
482 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
483 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
484 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
485 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
486 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
487 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
488 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
489 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
490 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
491 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
492 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
493 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
494 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
495 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
496 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
497 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
498 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
499 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
500 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89

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