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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 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
603 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
604 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
605 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
606 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
607 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
608 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
609 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
610 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
611 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
612 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
613 Add a wrapper to make tables "responsive" #6008
614 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
615 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
616 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
617 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
618 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
619 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
620 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
621 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
622 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
623 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
624 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
625 Allow taxonomy term for layout block visibility #5612
626 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
627 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
628 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
629 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
630 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
631 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
632 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
633 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
634 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
635 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
636 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
637 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
638 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
639 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
640 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755
641 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
642 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
643 Group interdependent checkboxes visually #6013
644 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
645 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
646 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
647 Rename default Contact form category #4703
648 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
649 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
650 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
651 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
652 [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
653 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
654 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
655 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
656 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
657 Trim textfields? #6386
658 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
659 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
660 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
661 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
662 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
663 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
664 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
665 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
666 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
667 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
668 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
669 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
670 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
671 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
672 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
673 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
674 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
675 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
676 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
677 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
678 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
679 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
680 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
681 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
682 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
683 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
684 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
685 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
686 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
687 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
688 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
689 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
690 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
691 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
692 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
693 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
694 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
695 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
696 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
697 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
698 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
699 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
700 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803

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