At least since 16.04, and probably earlier, upstream have done work on this. The Vendor and Model/Product strings are processed and common un- needed words are removed (e.g. "Intel Corporation" becomes "Intel") so I think this can be marked as Fixed.
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263078 Title: Truncate long device description in applet menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1263078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs