System Tray : serious ergonomical problems - constatations

Hi,

This post is the english version of what I post today on

m.p.f.w.v.general entitled "System Tray : sérieux problème d'ergonomie -

constatations".

I would like to tell Microsoft that I discover some ergonomical glitches

that annoy me in my every day use of vista. I now they are small things

(compare to all the operating system), but it is really "aggravating"

(not sure of the translation ^^) it does not gives a feeling of

perfection.

Here is my thoughts about 3 errors that should have been detected and

that need a correction :

-The volume adjustment is horrible when using the keyboard :

It is really hard to obtain the desire sound level if your are looking

for a specific value mainly because there is a bip every time you

press a button (up/down) on your keyboard.

For example if the sound is fixed at 20 and I want to increase it up to

25, I have to press 5 times the upper arrow, which gives :

bip bip biip biip biiiiip biiiiiiip ... and ... I'm lost ! All this

"bip" made me loose control about where I was in terms of sound volume

(number).

Moreover the numeric value is not shown everytime : only on mouseover...

-The alimentation mode does not apply until you clic elsewhere of the

selection area. That differs from the sound adjustment (where you don't

have to loose focus).

-Again, about the little area where you chose the alimentation plan when

you left clic on the battery icon in the system tray :

The content of this area is not loaded during the computer start-up ,

there is juste a white area :-(

I've got a M1330 (good laptop, but aldready 1 year old), and still it is

a pain in the ass when my system wakes up from prolonged sleep or simply

start-up : I have to wait until complete load of the computer before i

can change the alimentation plan.

The problem happened a few times when I didn't pay attention to the

current alimentation mode when I shutdown my computer : next time i

start the computer it was in economic mode : only 1 core of the CPU,

less power, slow start, obliged to wait for complete start-up before

changing alimentation mode >.<

To summarize : simple ergocomics details that need more attention in my

opinion. It is unpleasant to find this kind of lakes into a so complete

system...

Hoping the feedback will be heard...

TiTi