UI glitch: entering float numerical data

In the Inspector and in the edit mode bar (the bar which appears at the bottom of the screen when an object is being edited), entering numeric data with floating point is cumbersome, because the edit box keeps supplying 0's to "fill the pattern". For instance, to enter the value -1.75 in one of those fields:

0) select the whole current value (to start from scratch)
1) key '-':   "-" is displayed
2) key '1':   "-1.00" is displayed
3) no more digits can be entered after the point directly; so:
4) press [Right] to skip the decimal point
5) press [Del] to delete the first 0:   "-1.0" is displayed
6) key '7':   "-1.70" is displayed
7) press [Del] to delete the other '0':   "-1.7" is displayed
8) key '5':   "-1.75" is finally displayed

Note: if both 0's are deleted together ("-1.00" => "-1.") the second '0' reappears after entering the '7'.

I think there should be an easier way to enter those data.

This does NOT happen for ALL float numbers; for instance entering floats in dialogues (for instance, the "Style | General..." dlg box) is straightforward. Inspector and edit tool bar are special in that the element worked on changes dynamically for each change to the value (which sometime is useful and sometime is not): are two things -- auto 0-ing and dynamic change -- connected?

Does this bother anybody else or am I particularly picky?

Thanks,

M.