This is not urgent and can wait until next version but since already discussed, here my proposal:
Like discussed in "[PD] Preferred/best practice for loading external objects" thread also config files should be made to freedesktop standard conform like described in
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
from $(HOME)/.pdsettings to
(suggestion) $(HOME)/.config/pd/settings.conf
so configs from one computers home can be copied to another on migration, upgrade.
mfG Winfried Ritsch