State default SVGO settings

[joshpowlison]

I'd used SVGO in the past, and my changes to the settings had been changed. I had to open Firefox to get to the default settings, which are recommended in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

I'd recommend we state what the default settings should be so that anyone in a similar situation gets the right icon out (there's no reset to defaults button that I'm aware of on SVGO, besides probably removing cookies).

[davidklebanoff]

Slightly related - there is an issue for adding a reset button to SVGOMG.

jakearchibald/svgomg#101

[EvasivePangolin]

Try using SVGOMG in private browsing / incognito mode so the browser cookie that it uses to store your settings won't be there. Or just clear your cookies.

By default, everything is set to true except for the following, which are set to false:

• Prettify code
• Multipass
• Remove xmlns
• Remove raster images
• Round/rewrite number lists
• Sort attrs
• Prefer viewBox to width/height
• Remove style elements

Edit 2: Just realized this was a recommendation, not a request. I should sleep more.

[ericcornelissen]

I don't think it is helpful to include a full list of the settings in the contributing guidelines since there are over 40 different settings that can be changed... We already specify that we want "the" default settings with a precision of 3

Set the precision to 3, leave the remaining settings at the default values.

Ideally we can rely on a reset button on the SVGOMG website (I might pick that issue up if I find the time), for the time being we could go with the suggestion by @EvasivePangolin, and add to the contributing guidelines that a cookie reset/using incognito mode will give you the default settings. If you feel like that is a good (temporary) solution, I invite you to open a PR for it @Josh-Powlison

[joshpowlison]

Resetting has been tricky for me and others as well, going incognito or even for this person resetting cookies didn't work. :/

Okay, I'll admit, I'm lazy and don't want to do it. :P But if the success of resetting based on cookies and incognito is uncertain, and most people aren't having an issue with this anyway, it's probably something to shelf for now.

[ferdnyc]

As a data point, going incognito in Linux Chrome did successfully reset the options for me, but nothing short of doing that worked. Opening a different file, closing the tab and then manually returning to the SVGOMG URL in a new tab... I'd expect both of those to reset the options. (Though I suppose on "load a new file", that point is debatable and there are valid arguments to be made on both sides.)

It does seem like a reset button/link would be helpful. (Especially if all it needs to do is clear out a cookie.)

[ericcornelissen]

As of svgomg/#142 you can reset the configuration from the SVGOMG website, just scroll down the settings list and you'll find a button that says "Reset all".

Closing this issue now. I will add a note about this to the contribution guidelines later 👍