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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] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
602 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
603 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
604 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
605 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
606 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
607 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
608 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
609 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
610 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
611 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
612 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
613 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
614 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
615 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
616 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
617 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
618 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
619 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
620 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
621 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
622 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
623 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
624 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
625 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
626 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
627 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
628 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
629 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
630 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
631 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
632 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
633 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
634 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
635 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
636 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
637 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
638 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
639 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
640 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
641 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
642 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
643 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
644 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
645 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
646 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
647 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
648 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
649 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
650 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
651 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
652 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
653 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
654 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
655 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
656 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
657 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
658 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
659 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
660 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
661 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
662 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
663 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
664 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
665 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
666 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
667 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
668 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
669 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
670 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
671 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
672 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
673 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
674 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
675 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
676 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
677 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
678 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
679 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
680 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
681 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
682 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
683 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
684 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
685 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
686 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
687 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
688 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
689 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
690 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
691 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
692 [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
693 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
694 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
695 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
696 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
697 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
698 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
699 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
700 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536

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