The main ImageCache documentation at ImageCache: dynamic image manipulation instructs to access ImageCache as follows:

First login to Administer -> Site Configuration -> Image cache.

ImageCache settings are actually in Administer -> Site Building.
(Also, login is imprecise/misleading, and ImageCache has no space.)

While I think believe priority is consistent documentation, I think it would make more sense if ImageCache actually were located in Site Building (in admin/build instead of admin/settings). This is where the vast majority of contrib modules' settings are found.

Site Building is reserved for basic site functionality: Blocks, Menus, Modules, Themes, URL Aliases... Views.
I can appreciate Views being there, as a Contrib exception, being fundamental and large -- but ImageCache's presence there is not logical or intuitive to me.

Apologies if this has already been discussed... My searching found that besides the main docs (where the error is discussed in comments,) the same confusion is evidenced in a few other places:

I would certainly appreciate to understand the thought process behind this decision.

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dman’s picture

dman commented

Don't take my word for it, but between versions (possibly D5-D6, I can't recall) the menu item was moved from one to the other. Thus some docs are out of date on that point.

FWIW, I feel that imagecache settings is site configuration - not build, and didn't see why it moved over there.
But the distinction has never been clear in Drupal admin anyway - it's hard to guess what is expected to be where. This is a vague, but real UI issue (for Drupal in general) IMO.

fizk’s picture

fizk commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Please reopn if this is still an issue with ImageCache 6.x-2.0-rc1.