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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 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
602 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
603 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
604 [UX] Add information about removed modules to the uninstall page #3779
605 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
606 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
607 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
608 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
609 [UX][D8] Allow 'Content: Link' views field to just output URL #3419
610 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
611 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
612 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
613 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
614 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
615 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
616 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
617 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
618 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
619 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
620 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
621 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
622 [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
623 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
624 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
625 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
626 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
627 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
628 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
629 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
630 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
631 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
632 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
633 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
634 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
635 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
636 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
637 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
638 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
639 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
640 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
641 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
642 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
643 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
644 Add function that returns default config #3251
645 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
646 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
647 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
648 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
649 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
650 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
651 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
652 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
653 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
654 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
655 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
656 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
657 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
658 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
659 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
660 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
661 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
662 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
663 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
664 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
665 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
666 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
667 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
668 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
669 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
670 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
671 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
672 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
673 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
674 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
675 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
676 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
677 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
678 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
679 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
680 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
681 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
682 Menu router refactoring #2400
683 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
684 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
685 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
686 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
687 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
688 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
689 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
690 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
691 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
692 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
693 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
694 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
695 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
696 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
697 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
698 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
699 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
700 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912

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