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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 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
402 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
403 More useful tags for views #6268
404 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
405 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
406 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
407 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
408 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
409 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
410 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
411 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
412 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
413 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
414 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
415 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
416 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
417 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
418 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
419 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
420 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
421 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
422 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
423 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
424 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
425 Create a printable Status Report #5821
426 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
427 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
428 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
429 [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
430 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
431 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
432 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
433 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
434 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
435 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
436 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
437 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
438 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
439 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
440 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
441 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
442 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
443 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
444 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
445 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
446 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
447 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
448 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
449 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
450 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
451 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
452 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
453 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
454 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
455 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
456 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
457 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
458 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
459 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
460 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
461 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
462 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
463 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
464 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
465 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
466 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
467 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
468 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
469 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
470 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
471 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
472 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
473 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
474 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
475 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
476 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
477 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
478 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
479 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
480 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
481 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
482 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
483 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
484 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
485 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
486 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
487 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
488 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
489 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
490 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
491 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
492 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
493 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
494 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
495 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
496 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
497 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
498 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
499 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
500 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646

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