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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 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
602 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
603 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
604 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
605 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
606 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
607 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
608 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
609 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
610 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
611 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
612 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
613 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
614 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
615 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
616 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
617 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
618 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
619 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
620 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
621 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
622 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
623 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
624 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
625 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
626 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
627 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
628 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
629 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
630 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
631 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
632 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
633 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
634 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
635 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
636 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
637 More useful tags for views #6268
638 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
639 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
640 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
641 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
642 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
643 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
644 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
645 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
646 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
647 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
648 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
649 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
650 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
651 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
652 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
653 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
654 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
655 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
656 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
657 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
658 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
659 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
660 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
661 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
662 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
663 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
664 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
665 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
666 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
667 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
668 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
669 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
670 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
671 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
672 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
673 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
674 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
675 [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
676 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
677 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
678 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
679 uuid and entity import / export #890
680 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
681 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
682 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
683 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
684 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
685 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
686 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
687 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
688 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
689 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
690 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
691 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
692 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
693 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
694 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
695 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
696 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
697 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
698 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
699 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
700 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588

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