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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] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
602 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
603 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
604 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
605 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
606 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
607 Create a printable Status Report #5821
608 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
609 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
610 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
611 [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
612 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
613 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
614 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
615 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
616 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
617 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
618 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
619 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
620 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
621 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
622 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
623 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
624 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
625 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
626 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
627 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
628 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
629 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
630 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
631 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
632 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
633 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
634 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
635 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
636 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
637 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
638 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
639 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
640 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
641 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
642 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
643 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
644 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
645 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
646 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
647 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
648 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
649 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
650 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
651 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
652 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
653 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
654 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
655 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
656 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
657 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
658 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
659 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
660 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
661 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
662 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
663 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
664 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
665 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
666 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
667 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
668 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
669 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
670 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
671 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
672 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
673 [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
674 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
675 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
676 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
677 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
678 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
679 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
680 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
681 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
682 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
683 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
684 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
685 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
686 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
687 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
688 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
689 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
690 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
691 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
692 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
693 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
694 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
695 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
696 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
697 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
698 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
699 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
700 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863

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