Editing Motif (software) (section)

==Standardization==

[[File:CDE Application Builder.png|thumb|The Common Desktop Environment is built on top of Motif.]]

Motif is the basic building block of the [[Common Desktop Environment]], which was the standard desktop for commercial Unix.

The [[IEEE]] 1295 [[standardization|standard]] (now withdrawn<ref>{{cite web
  |url = https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1295/1969/
  |title = 1295-1993 - IEEE Standard for Information Technology--X Window System--Modular Toolkit Environment (MTE)
  |access-date = 2023-03-30
  |publisher = IEEE Computer Society
  |archive-date = March 29, 2023
  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230329225049/https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1295/1969/
  |url-status = live
  }}</ref>) defines the "Motif [[Application programming interface|API]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opengroup.org/motif/|title=Open Group Desktop Technologies -- Motif|website=The Open Group|access-date=May 6, 2003|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809050204/http://www.opengroup.org/motif/|url-status=live}}</ref> As of version 2.1, Motif supports [[Unicode]], which made it widely used in several multilingual environments.