Always display brush size in millimetres.

Hello.
I know in the brush options panel you can enter a brush size in millimetres, but is there any way to permantly make it display the size in mm?
I need to know how thick some lines are in mm, and even after going to options and changing all diplay uints to mm, it still shows up as pts.
I've attached a picture of exactly what I'm referring to below. (The "Size" field currently showing "15 pt". I need that area to display mm).
Thanks a lot.

Hi cofeebot3000,
It looks like this dialog is not honoring the gloabl preferences setting for Units. Can you please log a feature/enhancement request at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Sanjay.

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