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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 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
902 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
903 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
904 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
905 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
906 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
907 Redirects write to json files? #4001
908 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
909 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
910 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
911 [UX] Add information about removed modules to the uninstall page #3779
912 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
913 Create "Current Node" block #5774
914 [UX][D8] Allow 'Content: Link' views field to just output URL #3419
915 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
916 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
917 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
918 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
919 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
920 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
921 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
922 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
923 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
924 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
925 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
926 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
927 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
928 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
929 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
930 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
931 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
932 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
933 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
934 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
935 Custom Block contextual link #4390
936 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
937 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
938 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
939 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
940 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
941 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
942 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
943 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
944 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
945 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
946 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
947 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
948 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
949 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
950 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
951 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
952 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
953 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
954 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
955 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
956 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
957 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
958 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
959 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
960 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
961 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
962 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
963 Seventy two theme #5928
964 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
965 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
966 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
967 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
968 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
969 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
970 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
971 Trim textfields? #6386
972 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
973 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
974 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
975 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
976 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
977 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
978 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
979 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
980 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
981 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
982 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
983 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274

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