Editing Motif (software) (section)

==History==
[[File:Plan Open Motif screenshot.png|thumb|Screenshot of [[Plan (calendar program)|plan]], an application that uses the Motif toolkit. The "chiseled" look of Motif is clearly visible.]]

Motif was created by the [[Open Software Foundation]] (OSF) to be a standard graphical user interface for Unix platforms.<ref name="osf-motif" /> Rather than create a new interface from scratch, OSF opened a Request For Technology (RFT) in 1988 to solicit existing technologies from third parties. OSF intended to either adopt an existing interface wholesale, or create one using a combination of technologies from multiple existing products. Forty products were submitted, from which OSF selected twenty-three finalists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szsEAAAAMBAJ|title=OSF Narrows Its Search For User Interface to 23|page=45|author1=Martin Marshall|author2=Ed Scannell|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=1988-10-10|access-date=2021-12-29}}</ref> Among the finalists were [[Adobe Inc.]]'s [[Display Postscript]], [[Sun Microsystems]]' [[OPEN LOOK]], [[Digital Research]]'s [[GEM (desktop environment)|GEM]], [[IXI Limited]]'s [[X.desktop]], [[Apollo Computer]]'s Open Dialogue, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]'s [[Andrew User Interface System]], [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s [[OpenVMS#Graphical user interfaces|XUI]], and [[Hewlett-Packard]] and [[Microsoft]]'s [[Presentation Manager#Presentation Manager for Unix|CXI and PM/X]]. Ultimately, OSF selected a combination of the look and feel, window manager and [[Common User Access]] compliance from HP and Microsoft's CXI, along with the widget toolkit API and User Interface Language (UIL) from DEC's XUI.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V10.4.pdf|title=Strategies for Writing Graphical UNIX Applications Productively and Portably|author=Janet Dobbs|date=August 1989|page=50|volume=10|number=4|journal=AUUG Newsletter|access-date=2021-12-29|archive-date=January 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128124554/https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V10.4.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Company-Publications/HP-Journal/90s/HPJ-1990-06.pdf|title=Making Interface Behavior Consistent: The HP OSF/Motif Graphical User Interface|author1=Axel O. Deininger|author2=Charles V. Fernandez|volume=41|number=3|date=June 1990|access-date=2021-12-29|archive-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929102042/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Company-Publications/HP-Journal/90s/HPJ-1990-06.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Motif was first shipped by OSF in 1989.<ref name="osf-motif">{{cite web|url=http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/motif/hybrids.htm|title=User Interface Hybrids - Integrating User Environments with Motif|website=[[The Open Group]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115184703/https://www.opengroup.org/desktop/motif/hybrids.htm|archive-date=2018-01-15|url-status=live}}</ref>