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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 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
902 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
903 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
904 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
905 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
906 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
907 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
908 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
909 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
910 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
911 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
912 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
913 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
914 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
915 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
916 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
917 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
918 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
919 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
920 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
921 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
922 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
923 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
924 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
925 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
926 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
927 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
928 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
929 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
930 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
931 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
932 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
933 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
934 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
935 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
936 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
937 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
938 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
939 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
940 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
941 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
942 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
943 Double click prevention #6393
944 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
945 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
946 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
947 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
948 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
949 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
950 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
951 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
952 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
953 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
954 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
955 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
956 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
957 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
958 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
959 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
960 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
961 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
962 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
963 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
964 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
965 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
966 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
967 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
968 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
969 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
970 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
971 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
972 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
973 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
974 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
975 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
976 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
977 [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
978 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
979 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
980 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
981 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
982 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478

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