It appears that full support for templates in the autoproperties file has broken the support for the "role" autoproperty. EG, for Pidgin I have the following combo:

Define = "Stickied" {

   ApplyOn = "Start New"
   Sticky = "True"

}

Property = "^pidgin,^Pidgin" {

   Role = "^conversation"
   ClientGeometry="300x300+300+300"
   @Stickied
   FocusNew = "False"

}

Property = "^pidgin,^Pidgin" {

   Role = "^buddy_list"
   @Stickied
   Iconified = "True"

}

The result is: conversation windows are never affected, and the buddy-list is the one who is instead affected by the ClientGeometry setting.

Considering how templates work might involve actually changing entirely how to specify a Role in order to fix this. Would it be wise, for example, to allow Role specification be an optional third argument in the header, like this?

Property = "^pidgin,^Pidgin,^buddy_list" {

   @Stickied
   Iconified = "True"

}