[BRLTTY] brltty: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Petter Reinholdtsen on 2016/09/14 at 19:49 +0200]

>and have been told to use brltty.appstream.xml.  I do not know if 
>brltty.appdata.xml will work too.

We'll use brltty.appstream.xml then.

>The modalias string is matched using globbing, so only v and p will
>work, as will any other combination.  For example for cheese I've tried
>to use usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip* to match any USB camera device.
>Perhaps you can use something similar for braille tools?

Can we leave out the unspecified ones, i.e. can we simply supply vxxxxpxxxx 
without the others like d*?

Right now, we're generating the <component>, the <provides>, and the <modalias>
elements. Which other tags should we add?

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