Photoshop's User Interface brightness

Hi there,
could anyone try to explain to me why all the other applications from Adobe (concretely from the Production Premium bundle) have the sweet ability to darken their user interface, but Photoshop doesn't?
Photoshop is THE ONLY application that's missing the sweet slider to darken/brighten the user interface. I just discovered that even Illustrator CS4 has this ability, Premiere does, After FX does, so, what's the point? Why can't I darken Photoshop a bit? I think it's a bit more crucial to darken the UI in Photoshop than it is in Illustrator, as you're more likely to perform very sensitive color corrections in Photoshop and anything bright stands in your way, which is BAD!
I hope a soon-to-be-released patch will fix this.
Thanks in advance, cheers,
- Lukas

Hey, Rob,
thanks for the tip, I use the same technique, I was just really almost shocked when I discovered that even Illustrator has this sweet slider to adjust the user inteface brightness.
I'm amazed that such a key photo editing software wouldn't have this feature. Like Lightroom, that's almost completely black, why can't we tune down Photoshop's UI brightness?
Don't get me wrong, CS4 is ways better than CS3 even in terms of UI brightness, but still, if the sliders are available in all other Adobe products (Premiere, After FX, Illustrator, Soundbooth and I bet it's in Flash, InDesign and Acrobat...), why isn't the same option in Photoshop?

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