I would like to have the ability to set permissions (basically hide) tabs from certain UserTypes.  For example, we find it very convenient to add a few configuation settings on a home page (or language landing page) as it can be easily queried as an ancestor of the current page and allows configurations to change respective to different content branches.

It would be nice only to allow Administrators (or whatever) to see this tab as in imo it feels a bit sloppy to add a specific configuration document type in these situations (and often means you have to setting all sorts of goofy permissions to hide that from the tree anyway).

The only alternative we have found is to write a custom configuration section and use something like the configTree package to make changes but this requires a bit more "developer" knowledge.