Uwe, your changes to g-brief2.layout don't look right!
You mentioned that your patch was 4 years old and thus didn't require any further discussion. However, it seems that you missed a few changes to g-brief2 since 2003. Moreover, it seems that you changed a few styles and labels in the wrong way (Address is written with two "d"s in English). This will certainly break compatibility.
I am tempted to revert your recent changes. After that, you can provide another, smaller patch to g-brief2. OK?
Michael
