Capitalized entries (dynamic properties?) in the `i3blocks.conf` file break the status line about i3blocks-contrib HOT 8 CLOSED

You can read about dynamic properties here: #132. The previous link is the guide I wrote to myself to help convert blocks form the old format to the new one. Basically, i3blocks now passes all property=blah things in the config as variables to your script, instead of just command, full_text, signal, instance, etc.

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Thanks @Aster89, the new documentation is in progress and should be out very soon.

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Version 1.4 does not support the dynamic properties yet. You'll either need to use the current git version of i3blocks or wait for the next release until you can use the scripts in the current format as contained in the master branch of this repository.

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I imagined this, but then I supposed it could not be that way since I read Each release of this repository will be guaranteed to work against a given release of i3blocks (a.k.a. core). on the i3blocks-contrib page. There I understood that the master branches of the two repos should be guaranteed to work with each other. Have I missed something?

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@Aster89, the master branch of i3blocks now also supports dynamic properties, and we coordinated to make both repos make the change at the same time, so indeed right now the master branch of both should work with each other. Right now is a bit hectic for us so please be understanding (and, even better, help us!).

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@kb100 , I really thought I was barking up the wrong tree when I read the 3 by 2 table.

Well, I'd be glad to help you, but I think I'm not at that level yet. Actually I've done a small edits to my blocklets, but they're all about fancy stuff. In this respect, I'd really appreciate if you could provide me with some reference where I could start from to understand this (vague to me) thing of "dynamic properties".

Maybe it's nice to tag @vivien as well, so he can read about the broken link without his issues page being clogged with small detail issues.

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Just for curiosity, if those capitalized names just define variables to be used in the scripts, putting them in the i3blocks config file without editing the blocklets scripts should result simply in unused variables, shouldn't it? Instead it breaks the i3blocks output. Maybe the reason is that i3blocks can't parse those options yet?

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@Aster89 the old version of i3blocks cannot parse new dynamic properties, so it crashes. In the current version of i3blocks, if you add in extra options they will just be unused variables.

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