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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] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
902 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
903 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
904 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
905 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
906 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
907 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
908 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
909 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
910 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
911 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
912 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
913 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
914 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
915 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
916 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
917 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
918 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
919 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
920 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
921 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
922 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
923 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
924 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
925 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
926 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
927 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
928 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
929 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
930 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
931 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
932 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
933 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
934 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
935 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
936 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
937 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
938 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
939 [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
940 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
941 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
942 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
943 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
944 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
945 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
946 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
947 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
948 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
949 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
950 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
951 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
952 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
953 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
954 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
955 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
956 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
957 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
958 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
959 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
960 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
961 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
962 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
963 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
964 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
965 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
966 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
967 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
968 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
969 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
970 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
971 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
972 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
973 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
974 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
975 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
976 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
977 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
978 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
979 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
980 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
981 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233

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