[TYPO3-core] Renaming the "Clear all cache" menu item?

[François Suter]

Hi Ernesto,

> +1 to rename it, good catch, that issue also was in my mind (somewhere).
>
> The tooltip explains: "Clear all caches, including frontend caches, and
> extension-specific caches. Compile-time caches / system caches that are
> needed for TYPO3 to run are not touched."

I had never hovered over these menu items long enough to notice the 
tooltips :-\ This speaks in favor of trying to find more explicit names, 
since people might the tooltips.

> Difficult to put that in one or two words. Because it includes the
> "frontend caches" but also some extension caches. Maybe we could just
> the use this info for the label?

It is indeed very difficult to express with a few words. Also because 
technically things are more complicated than just those 3 menu items. 
The fact that "Clear all caches" also clear the frontend caches is not 
due to the fact that the corresponding clear_cacheCmd does this, but 
because all Core caches declared in group "pages" are also declared in 
group "all". This means that a developer could very well add a "pure" 
frontend cache (i.e. only in the "pages" group), that would not be 
cleared by flushing "all" caches.

So let's try to formulate that.

* Flush frontend caches
** Tooltip: Clear frontend and page-related caches

I propose to keep these two unchanged, as I think they are clear enough 
and it does not matter IMO whether the flushed caches belong to the Core 
or to extensions.

* Flush general caches
** Tooltip: Clear frontend and page-related caches, plus some 
backend-related caches.

Here I propose to change "all" into "general" and simply call those 
caches "backend-related". That's a bit abstract, but I think it's enough 
for users. For developers, there's Core APIs.

* Flush system caches
** Tooltip: Clear all system-related caches, including the class loader, 
localization and extension configuration file caches. Rebuilding this 
cache may take some time.

Mostly unchanged, I added the mention of the localization cache and just 
rephrased it a bit to try and use the "cache" word less often.

What do you think?

As an aside, I find it worth noting that - looking only at 
DefaultConfiguration.php - the "pages" and "all" cache groups contain 
the exact same caches. So those two caches are really close on a base 
setup. The workspaces system extension add a cache which is only in the 
"all" group.

Cheers

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