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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] Hide all field labels by default #2902
902 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
903 Menu router refactoring #2400
904 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
905 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
906 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
907 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
908 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
909 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
910 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
911 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
912 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
913 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
914 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
915 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
916 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
917 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
918 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
919 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
920 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
921 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
922 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
923 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
924 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
925 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
926 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
927 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
928 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
929 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
930 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
931 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
932 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
933 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
934 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
935 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
936 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
937 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
938 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
939 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
940 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
941 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
942 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
943 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
944 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
945 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
946 Allow regions titles #2647
947 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
948 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
949 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
950 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
951 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
952 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
953 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
954 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
955 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
956 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
957 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
958 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
959 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
960 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
961 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
962 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
963 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
964 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
965 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
966 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
967 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
968 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
969 Search terms along with nodes #3850
970 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
971 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
972 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
973 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
974 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
975 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
976 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
977 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
978 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
979 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
980 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
981 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002

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