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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] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
902 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
903 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
904 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
905 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
906 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
907 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
908 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
909 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
910 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
911 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
912 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
913 Create a printable Status Report #5821
914 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
915 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
916 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
917 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
918 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
919 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
920 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
921 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
922 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
923 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
924 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
925 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
926 Menu router refactoring #2400
927 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
928 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
929 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
930 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
931 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
932 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
933 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
934 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
935 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
936 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
937 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
938 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
939 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
940 Allow regions titles #2647
941 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
942 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
943 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
944 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
945 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
946 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
947 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
948 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
949 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
950 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
951 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
952 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
953 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
954 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
955 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
956 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
957 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
958 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
959 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
960 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
961 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
962 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
963 Search terms along with nodes #3850
964 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
965 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
966 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
967 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
968 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
969 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
970 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
971 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
972 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
973 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
974 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
975 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
976 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
977 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
978 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
979 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
980 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
981 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
982 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
983 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890

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