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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
501 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
502 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
503 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
504 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
505 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
506 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
507 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
508 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
509 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
510 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
511 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
512 Add layouts into the search index #5128
513 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
514 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
515 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
516 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
517 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
518 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
519 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
520 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
521 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
522 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
523 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
524 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
525 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
526 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
527 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
528 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
529 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
530 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
531 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
532 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
533 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
534 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
535 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
536 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
537 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
538 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
539 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
540 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
541 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
542 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
543 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
544 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
545 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
546 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
547 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
548 [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
549 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Collapsible blocks #3995
550 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
551 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
552 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
553 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
554 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
555 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
556 Better Book navigation links #4879
557 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
558 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
559 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
560 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
561 Consolidate user links on admin bar #4643
562 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
563 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
564 Basis: Update box-sizing method #4208
565 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
566 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
567 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
568 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
569 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
570 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
571 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
572 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
573 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
574 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
575 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
576 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
577 Create a printable Status Report #5821
578 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
579 [UX] When there is only one menu item in a section, don't list #4386
580 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
581 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
582 [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
583 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
584 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
585 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
586 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
587 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
588 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
589 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
590 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
591 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
592 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
593 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188
594 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
595 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
596 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
597 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
598 [WP] Media Library #3203
599 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
600 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809

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