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Windows Forms may have supported it, but no one seemed to use it. You still to this day see dialog boxes in Windows with microscopic text areas in windows that

Windows Forms may have supported it, but no one seemed to use it. You still to this day see dialog boxes in Windows with microscopic text areas in windows that cannot be resized. This is an artefact of the GUI builders used where the developer just "drew" the UI components with fixed positioning. As for Motif, there were third-party GUI builders, but Motif itself did not have one as standard that I know of (I developed on Motif on Solaris when working for Sun). The layout model for Motif is so easy that you don't need a GUI builder anyway. I've used may UI frameworks since then, and Motif is still the easiest one to use in my opinion.

pjmlp 6y ago
Just like the Web supports responsive design and not everyone actually uses it. For Motif I am aware of the one provided with Motif++, now gone from the Web, and the one provided by ICS (https://motif.ics.com/products https://motif.ics.com/products). I guess Solaris might have lacked one indeed, given NeXT's commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg Sun was never good at desktop software anyway, killed NeWS, Swing while powerful requires graphics programming knowledge to make cool UIs and then there was F3 (JavaFX 1.0), and the Java Desktop Framework Integration project went nowhere.