Show Description field on Manage Fields page

Problem/Motivation

The Taxonomy module by default provides a Description field for taxonomy terms. Its label and help text cannot be changed in the UI. The field can be placed (and disabled) on the Manage form display page, but it cannot be removed.

In use cases where for example the description should only be a shorter plain text field, or where a different label or a different help text is required, the site builder needs to add their own text field in addition and then hide the Description field from the form and the display.

For other entities (for the default Article content type), a default Body field is provided but can be removed on the Manage fields page.

Proposed resolution

Expose the Description field on the Manage fields page, similar to the Body field of a content type.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

This is a UI change.

API changes

Data model changes