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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 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
602 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
603 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
604 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
605 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
606 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
607 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
608 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
609 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
610 Add a wrapper to make tables "responsive" #6008
611 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
612 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
613 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
614 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
615 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
616 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
617 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
618 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
619 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
620 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
621 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
622 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
623 Allow taxonomy term for layout block visibility #5612
624 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
625 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
626 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
627 Menu router refactoring #2400
628 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
629 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
630 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
631 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
632 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
633 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
634 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
635 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
636 More useful tags for views #6268
637 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
638 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755
639 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
640 Group interdependent checkboxes visually #6013
641 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
642 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
643 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
644 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
645 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
646 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
647 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
648 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
649 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
650 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
651 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
652 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
653 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
654 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
655 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
656 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
657 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
658 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
659 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
660 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
661 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
662 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
663 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
664 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
665 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
666 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
667 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
668 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
669 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
670 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
671 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
672 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
673 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
674 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
675 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
676 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
677 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
678 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
679 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
680 uuid and entity import / export #890
681 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
682 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
683 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
684 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
685 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
686 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
687 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
688 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
689 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
690 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
691 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
692 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
693 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
694 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
695 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
696 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
697 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
698 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
699 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
700 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046

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