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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 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
602 [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
603 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
604 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
605 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
606 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
607 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
608 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
609 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
610 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
611 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
612 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
613 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
614 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
615 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
616 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
617 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
618 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
619 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
620 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
621 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
622 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
623 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
624 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
625 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
626 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
627 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
628 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
629 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
630 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
631 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
632 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
633 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
634 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
635 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
636 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
637 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
638 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
639 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
640 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
641 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
642 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
643 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
644 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
645 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
646 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
647 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
648 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
649 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
650 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
651 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
652 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
653 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
654 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
655 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
656 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
657 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
658 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
659 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
660 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
661 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
662 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
663 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
664 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
665 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
666 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
667 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
668 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
669 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
670 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
671 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
672 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
673 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
674 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
675 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
676 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
677 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
678 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
679 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
680 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
681 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
682 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
683 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
684 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
685 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
686 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
687 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
688 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
689 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
690 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
691 [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
692 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
693 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
694 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
695 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
696 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
697 [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
698 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
699 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
700 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536

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