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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 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
602 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
603 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
604 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
605 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
606 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
607 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
608 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
609 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
610 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
611 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
612 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
613 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
614 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
615 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
616 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
617 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
618 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
619 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
620 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
621 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
622 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
623 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
624 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
625 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
626 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
627 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
628 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
629 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
630 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
631 Add global site logo token #5871
632 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
633 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
634 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
635 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
636 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
637 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
638 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
639 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
640 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
641 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
642 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
643 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
644 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
645 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
646 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
647 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
648 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
649 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
650 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
651 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
652 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
653 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
654 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
655 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
656 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
657 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
658 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
659 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
660 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
661 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
662 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
663 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
664 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
665 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
666 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
667 Remove syslog module from core #1260
668 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
669 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
670 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
671 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
672 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
673 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
674 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
675 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
676 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
677 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
678 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
679 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
680 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
681 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
682 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
683 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
684 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
685 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
686 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
687 Search terms along with nodes #3850
688 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
689 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
690 Add layouts into the search index #5128
691 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
692 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
693 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
694 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
695 Menu router refactoring #2400
696 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
697 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
698 Showcase core features during install #4138
699 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
700 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760

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