I personally think drupal has an extremely strange way of handling page menus.
If you go to pretty much any other user based website, the users account settings are available on any page, because account settings are a global function, but for some reason drupal puts the account settings on each users account page. With an argument in?? what?
It just seems amaturish to put the edit account link on the users account page rather than making the link accessible without an argument.
So I for me I would like to be able to seperate these local tasks. Any links that are related to the current/logged in user should be accessible on any page not just the account page.
Then to further this, its not so important, but on node pages I would also like to seperate the tasks that are relevant to the node author and those that arent. It just seems weird to me that links that may be only available to the node author are in the same menu as links that anybody can access.
So I want to break down the local tasks into three areas.
Those links that are globally related to the current user such as account setting pages.
Links on node pages that only the node author has permission to see, such as node edit tabs.
and then all other local tasks that are left should be in a seperate menu.