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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 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
902 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
903 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
904 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
905 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
906 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
907 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
908 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
909 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
910 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
911 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
912 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
913 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
914 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
915 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
916 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
917 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
918 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
919 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
920 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
921 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
922 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
923 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
924 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
925 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
926 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
927 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
928 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
929 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
930 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
931 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
932 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
933 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
934 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
935 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
936 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
937 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
938 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
939 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
940 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
941 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
942 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
943 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
944 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
945 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
946 Create a printable Status Report #5821
947 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
948 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
949 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
950 [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
951 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
952 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
953 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
954 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
955 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
956 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
957 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
958 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
959 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
960 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
961 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
962 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
963 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
964 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
965 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
966 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
967 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
968 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
969 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
970 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
971 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
972 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
973 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
974 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
975 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
976 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
977 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
978 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
979 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
980 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
981 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
982 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933

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