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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 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
902 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
903 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
904 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
905 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
906 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
907 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
908 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
909 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
910 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
911 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
912 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
913 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
914 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
915 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
916 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
917 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
918 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
919 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
920 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
921 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
922 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
923 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
924 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
925 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
926 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
927 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
928 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
929 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
930 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
931 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
932 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
933 [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
934 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
935 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
936 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
937 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
938 Content creation page cleanup #202
939 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
940 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
941 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
942 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
943 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
944 Seventy two theme #5928
945 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
946 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
947 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
948 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
949 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
950 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
951 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
952 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
953 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
954 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
955 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
956 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
957 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
958 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
959 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
960 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
961 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
962 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
963 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
964 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
965 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
966 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
967 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
968 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
969 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
970 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
971 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
972 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
973 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
974 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
975 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
976 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
977 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
978 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
979 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
980 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
981 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
982 Trim textfields? #6386
983 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568

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