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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
901 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
902 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
903 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
904 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
905 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
906 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
907 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
908 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
909 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
910 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
911 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
912 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
913 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
914 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
915 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
916 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
917 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
918 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
919 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
920 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
921 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
922 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
923 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
924 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
925 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
926 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
927 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
928 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
929 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
930 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
931 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
932 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
933 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
934 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
935 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
936 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
937 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
938 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
939 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
940 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
941 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
942 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
943 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
944 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
945 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
946 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
947 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
948 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
949 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
950 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
951 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
952 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
953 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
954 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
955 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
956 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
957 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
958 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
959 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
960 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
961 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
962 [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
963 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
964 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
965 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
966 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
967 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
968 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
969 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
970 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
971 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
972 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
973 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
974 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
975 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
976 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
977 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
978 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
979 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
980 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
981 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514

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