Show number of opened issues/merge requests in the collapsed navigation view
Problem to solve
To save space and focus on my main reason why I'm using GitLab, I'm using the collapsed navigation. Unfortunately, this means that I need to hover the issues/merge requests icon to see how many of them are opened in the project, because this information is not presented in the collapsed mode.
When the navigation is expanded, the numbers are visible immediately.
The proposal is to add a small badge in the corner of issue and merge request icons, that would contain the number of existing issues/merge requests. Something like the "can't merge" icon in the collapsed merge request panel. Or the numbers in the issues/merge requests/TODOs icons in the top navigation bar.
For a very big number of opened issues or merge requests, this will be partially useful (since we will end probably with something like 99+
). But for smaller projects I think this would be a huge UX improvement.