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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 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
902 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
903 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
904 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
905 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
906 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
907 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
908 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
909 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
910 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
911 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
912 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
913 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
914 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
915 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
916 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
917 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
918 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
919 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
920 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
921 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
922 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
923 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
924 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
925 Comment administration improvements #2919
926 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
927 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
928 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
929 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
930 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
931 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
932 Create a printable Status Report #5821
933 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
934 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
935 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
936 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
937 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
938 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
939 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
940 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
941 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
942 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
943 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
944 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
945 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
946 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
947 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
948 [DX] Form API: Allow number fields to specify an array of suggested values (#options) #5285
949 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
950 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
951 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
952 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
953 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
954 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
955 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
956 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
957 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
958 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
959 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
960 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
961 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
962 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
963 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
964 Disable unused layout templates #5068
965 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
966 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
967 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
968 Allow regions titles #2647
969 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
970 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
971 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
972 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
973 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
974 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
975 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
976 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
977 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
978 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
979 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
980 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
981 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
982 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
983 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
984 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
985 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
986 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325

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