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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] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
402 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
403 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
404 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
405 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
406 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
407 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
408 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
409 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
410 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
411 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
412 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
413 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
414 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
415 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
416 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
417 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
418 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
419 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
420 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
421 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
422 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
423 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
424 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
425 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
426 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
427 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
428 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
429 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
430 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
431 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
432 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
433 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
434 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
435 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
436 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
437 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
438 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
439 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
440 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
441 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
442 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
443 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
444 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
445 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
446 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
447 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
448 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
449 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
450 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
451 [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
452 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
453 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
454 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
455 uuid and entity import / export #890
456 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
457 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
458 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
459 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
460 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
461 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
462 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
463 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
464 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
465 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
466 Trim textfields? #6386
467 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
468 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
469 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
470 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
471 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
472 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
473 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
474 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
475 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
476 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
477 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
478 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
479 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
480 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
481 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
482 [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
483 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
484 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
485 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
486 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
487 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
488 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
489 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
490 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
491 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
492 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
493 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
494 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
495 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
496 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
497 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
498 Double click prevention #6393
499 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
500 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438

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