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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 Add a new core theme #5175
402 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
403 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
404 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
405 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
406 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
407 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
408 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
409 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
410 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
411 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
412 Mobile first approach theme #4131
413 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
414 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
415 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
416 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
417 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
418 Create "Current Node" block #5774
419 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
420 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
421 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
422 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
423 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
424 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
425 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
426 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
427 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
428 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
429 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
430 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
431 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
432 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
433 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
434 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
435 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
436 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
437 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
438 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
439 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
440 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
441 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
442 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
443 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
444 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
445 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
446 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
447 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
448 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
449 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
450 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
451 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
452 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
453 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
454 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
455 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
456 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
457 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
458 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
459 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
460 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
461 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
462 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
463 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
464 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
465 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
466 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
467 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
468 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
469 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
470 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
471 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
472 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
473 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
474 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
475 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
476 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
477 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
478 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
479 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
480 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
481 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
482 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
483 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
484 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
485 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
486 Rename default Contact form category #4703
487 [WP] Media Library #3203
488 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
489 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
490 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
491 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
492 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
493 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
494 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
495 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
496 Seventy two theme #5928
497 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
498 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
499 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
500 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522

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