Add link to settings from within Merge request area

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Proposal

To help users get to settings from Merge requests there should be link to get to it from the merge requests area.

The boring solution is to introduce the link in the submenu because this could also be relevant to other product areas like Repository as well.

Explorations

Link in submenu	Link in page as an icon button	Link close to widget

Related research

This concept of having links to "settings" was explored in this solution validation ux-research#1306 (comment 506613378)

Explored was navigating to "Settings" from Repository and Merge requests and most participants used the "Settings" link in the submenu (Insights summary)