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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 form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
902 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
903 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
904 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
905 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
906 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
907 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
908 [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
909 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
910 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
911 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
912 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
913 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
914 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
915 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
916 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
917 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
918 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
919 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
920 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
921 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
922 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
923 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
924 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
925 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
926 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
927 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
928 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
929 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
930 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
931 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
932 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
933 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
934 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
935 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
936 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
937 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
938 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
939 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
940 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
941 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
942 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
943 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
944 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
945 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
946 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
947 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
948 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
949 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
950 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
951 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
952 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
953 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
954 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
955 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
956 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
957 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
958 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
959 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
960 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
961 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
962 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
963 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
964 [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
965 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
966 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
967 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
968 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
969 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
970 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
971 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
972 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
973 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
974 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
975 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
976 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
977 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
978 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
979 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
980 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
981 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
982 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075

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