Comment 8 for bug 907837

This is a also an annoying problem to me.
The Ubuntu 12.04 fixes the problem by using the handle for resizing only with those applications where the scroll bar is the next to the window border.

For me the underlying issue is the way the scrolling handle appears!

Moving the Mouse from right to the scroll bar, the handle does not appear next to the mouse as one might expect, but on the apposite side of the scroll bar. When trying to scroll you have to continue moving the Mouse until you finally reach the handle. When the handle is not reached, it is moving with the mouse like scrolling, but without scrolling. Thats annoying to.

So what to do?
* The scrolling handle should appear LEFT of the scroll bar. In the position where the static scroll bar would visible too. The current overlay scroll bar act this way, if you move a window like "Terminal" To the right border of your Screen.
* Once the handle appears, it should not be move with the mouse if not scrolling.

Taking both steps, window resizing should be possible and easy like having a static scroll bar.
.. and scrolling with the overlay scroll bar would be more intuitive (at least for me)

Kind regards,

Daniel