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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 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
602 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
603 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
604 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
605 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
606 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
607 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
608 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
609 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
610 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
611 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
612 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
613 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
614 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
615 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
616 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
617 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
618 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
619 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
620 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
621 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
622 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
623 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
624 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
625 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
626 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
627 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
628 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
629 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
630 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
631 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
632 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
633 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
634 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
635 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
636 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
637 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
638 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
639 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
640 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
641 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
642 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
643 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
644 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
645 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
646 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
647 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
648 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
649 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
650 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
651 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
652 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
653 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
654 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
655 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
656 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
657 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
658 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
659 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
660 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
661 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
662 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
663 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
664 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
665 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
666 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
667 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
668 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
669 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
670 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
671 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
672 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
673 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
674 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
675 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
676 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
677 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
678 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
679 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
680 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
681 [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
682 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
683 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
684 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
685 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
686 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
687 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
688 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
689 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
690 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
691 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
692 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
693 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
694 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
695 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
696 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
697 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
698 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
699 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
700 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825

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