User Interface Elements
Early widget toolkits for X included Xaw (the Athena Widget Set, 1983), OLIT (OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit, 1988), XView (1988), Motif (1980s) and Tk. OLIT and XView function as the base toolkits for Sun's legacy OpenWindows desktop environment.
Motif provides the base toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), the desktop environment used on commercial Unix systems such as Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. (Solaris 10 includes both CDE and GNOME, with the latter the preferred desktop environment as of 2010.)
Toolkits developed more recently include Qt (1991-, used by KDE), GTK+ (1997-, used by GNOME), wxWidgets (1992- ), FLTK (1998- ), FOX (1997- ) and fpGUI (2005-current).
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