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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
601 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
602 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
603 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
604 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
605 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
606 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
607 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
608 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
609 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
610 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
611 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
612 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
613 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
614 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
615 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
616 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
617 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
618 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
619 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
620 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
621 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
622 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
623 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
624 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
625 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
626 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
627 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
628 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
629 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
630 Trim textfields? #6386
631 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
632 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
633 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
634 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
635 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
636 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
637 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
638 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
639 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
640 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
641 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
642 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
643 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
644 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
645 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
646 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
647 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
648 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
649 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
650 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
651 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
652 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
653 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
654 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
655 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
656 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
657 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
658 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
659 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
660 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
661 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
662 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
663 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
664 Double click prevention #6393
665 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
666 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
667 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
668 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
669 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
670 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
671 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
672 [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
673 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
674 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
675 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
676 uuid and entity import / export #890
677 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
678 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
679 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
680 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
681 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
682 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
683 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
684 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
685 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
686 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
687 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
688 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
689 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
690 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
691 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
692 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
693 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
694 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
695 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
696 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
697 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
698 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
699 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
700 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829

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