I am opening this as both a feature request, and as documentation, because it's been now at least twice that I saw this being asked by newcomers on Gitter.
The current way to be importing D7 views post-installation, is to be using the contrib module https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/default_views_config to convert exported D7 views into config, and then to import those into Backdrop via /admin/config/development/configuration/single/import.
With all the expected D7 sites upgrading to Backdrop over the next couple of years, we should make it easier to do that in core (we could remove that in Backdrop 2.0).
At the very least, we should make sure that the process of using the contrib module is documented in a place where people would expect to find it. Perhaps even consider a help message in Views, pointing to the contrib solution + online documentation.
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Amilenkov's suggestions are spot on. As for the greyed out Menu module, that's because there must be another module that depends on Menu. Core will gray out modules that cannot be disabled (e.g...
menu partially working
Welcome to the Backdrop community! My first suspicion would be access to the destination page. Backdrop checks access when building the menu, so a link can be enabled but still be hidden...
menu partially working
here's the view when not logged in (ie with no 'sustainable computing' visible but is visible when i login as admin:
menu partially working