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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 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
602 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
603 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
604 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
605 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
606 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
607 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
608 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
609 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
610 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
611 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
612 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
613 [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
614 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
615 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
616 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
617 Add layouts into the search index #5128
618 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
619 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
620 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
621 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
622 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
623 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
624 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
625 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
626 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
627 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
628 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
629 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
630 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
631 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
632 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
633 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
634 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
635 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
636 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
637 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
638 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
639 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
640 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
641 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
642 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
643 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
644 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
645 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
646 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
647 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
648 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
649 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
650 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
651 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
652 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
653 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
654 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
655 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
656 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
657 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
658 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
659 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
660 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
661 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
662 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
663 Better Book navigation links #4879
664 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
665 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
666 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
667 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
668 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
669 Redirects write to json files? #4001
670 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
671 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
672 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
673 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
674 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
675 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
676 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
677 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
678 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
679 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
680 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
681 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
682 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
683 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
684 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
685 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
686 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
687 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
688 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
689 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
690 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
691 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
692 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
693 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
694 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
695 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
696 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
697 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
698 Custom Block contextual link #4390
699 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
700 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385

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