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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][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
402 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
403 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
404 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
405 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
406 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
407 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
408 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
409 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
410 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
411 Create a printable Status Report #5821
412 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
413 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
414 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
415 [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
416 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
417 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
418 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
419 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
420 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
421 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
422 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
423 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
424 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
425 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
426 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
427 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
428 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
429 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
430 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
431 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
432 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
433 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
434 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
435 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
436 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
437 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
438 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
439 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
440 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
441 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
442 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
443 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
444 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
445 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
446 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
447 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
448 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
449 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
450 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
451 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
452 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
453 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
454 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
455 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
456 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
457 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
458 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
459 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
460 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
461 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
462 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
463 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
464 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
465 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
466 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
467 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
468 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
469 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
470 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
471 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
472 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
473 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
474 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
475 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
476 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
477 Trim textfields? #6386
478 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
479 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
480 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
481 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
482 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
483 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
484 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
485 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
486 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
487 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
488 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
489 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
490 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
491 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
492 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
493 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
494 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
495 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
496 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
497 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
498 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
499 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
500 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408

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