I cannot reproduce this here (by removing the "~/.BOINC Manager" dir and switching to advanced view).
I assume that you are not using Unity? Is this KDE?
My guess is that there is an gettext/translation related issue in the GTK appmenu/indicator proxy that is used with Unity to move the menu from the application to the top panel and results in empty strings.
I cannot reproduce this here (by removing the "~/.BOINC Manager" dir and switching to advanced view).
I assume that you are not using Unity? Is this KDE?
My guess is that there is an gettext/translation related issue in the GTK appmenu/indicator proxy that is used with Unity to move the menu from the application to the top panel and results in empty strings.