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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
601 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
602 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
603 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
604 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
605 Comment administration improvements #2919
606 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
607 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
608 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
609 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
610 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
611 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
612 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
613 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
614 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
615 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
616 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
617 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
618 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
619 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
620 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
621 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
622 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
623 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
624 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
625 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
626 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
627 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
628 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
629 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
630 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
631 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
632 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
633 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
634 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
635 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
636 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
637 Menu router refactoring #2400
638 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
639 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
640 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
641 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
642 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
643 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
644 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
645 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
646 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
647 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
648 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
649 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
650 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
651 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
652 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
653 Allow regions titles #2647
654 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
655 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
656 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
657 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
658 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
659 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
660 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
661 [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
662 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
663 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
664 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
665 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
666 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
667 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
668 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
669 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
670 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
671 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
672 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
673 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
674 Search terms along with nodes #3850
675 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
676 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
677 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
678 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
679 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
680 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
681 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
682 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
683 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
684 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
685 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
686 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
687 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
688 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
689 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
690 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
691 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
692 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
693 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
694 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
695 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
696 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
697 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
698 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
699 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
700 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083

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