Any news on this?? 

Hi Rumen,

I must say I was surprised by the "we do not plan to improve the Rotator". Why is this post Approved then?! The title is "modernize the Rotator" :)

Are you planning to improve Image Gallery so that we can get something similar to a refreshed Rotator/Image Gallery? Comparing to owlcarousel or RoyalSlider, what functionalities can we expect then?

Please enlighten me because now I'm confused :(

I believe that having Rotator and Image Gallery might be redundant, but either you have a completely new rotator or a name change for Image Gallery :)

Yeah gotta be honest with you, I thought this entire time you were saying the ImageGallery is a replacement for the Rotator.  I don't see how you could refactor the rotator at all the way it's currently built without causing client regressions...?  Maybe a lightweight render mode or something...but...

ok, I was hoping to see Image Gallery updates already in the beta demos :(

As to the rotator: Not sure what you mean... If you implement everything it was suggested here by Steve and me, Rotator control will be a killer one! Also, check this plugin. Love how automattically reduces item columns and item images according to device screen.

https://github.com/smashingboxes/OwlCarousel2 or http://owlcarousel.owlgraphic.com/

What do you think?

Hi Rumen,

Online demos don't reflect these changes yet. When do you think Image Gallery tenplates demo will be available? Also, any predction on Rotator updates? 

Hi Rumen Jekov,

that is great news!! Will the control still be named Image Gallery? ;) Also, please try to include automatic video playback since this is a very usefull feature for automatic slide rotation.

Thanks for hearing us!!

...anything?

Any news on this request from Steve?

I also share the feeling of Steve. This control is the ugly duck in the Ajax UI Suite. I also believe that your aproach of having separated controls for images, videos and content(html) is a mistake. Almost every content "Rotator" tries to do what Dmitry Semenov did, incorporating a full set of features into one control or plugin, is his case. Today, as Steve wrote, we need to rotate whatever the heck we throw in there, and it's true! 

Why do you have a Rotator, an Image Gallery, a Lightbox and a Media Player?! Why not try to create a unique hybrid control that allows us to present ANY content with several mode options and configurations?

Right now, We are not using any of your new controls (Rad Rotator, Media Player, Lightbox and Image Gallery) since we need an integrated solution out of the box instead of having to inject a specific control according to the content.

Rotator: It's so dated that it's useless to try to use it in a modern web apllication.
Image Gallery: Why did you assume that a gallery just has images? How about local videos and remote videos mixed with images?
Lightbox: This control makes sense to be standalone since it can be incorporated into custom UI. 
Media Player: This should be merged with Image Gallery. It makes no sense to be standalone control.

Instead of just submitting a new control request, I'm going to add my vote to this one, and ask for you guys, to please take a really good look into Steve link ( http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/content-slider/) and also this one (http://kreaturamedia.com/layerslider-jquery-full-width-slider/
) that allows for mind blowing animations and awesome parallax effects on content.

Regards,
Hugo

I want it to rotate whatever the heck I throw in there :)

Example: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/content-slider/

This is why i was confused...because it was an image slider, I thought it was just an image gallery, not a "rotator"

Again back to the rotator on telerik.com
Contains images and text, buttons...

Oh is that what this is!?  I thought it was just some sort of like tile-list of images or something.

So how close is it to royal or whats on telerik.com right now?  
Is it...
1) Responsive
2) Css3 animated
3) Touch friendly
4) Auto Image scaling?
5) Html can be in the slides?