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13 terminal emulators for Linux: Konsole, GNOME-Terminal, Yakuake, Tilda, ROXTerm, xterm, Eterm, xvt, rxvt, mrxvt, rxvt-unicode, aterm, wterm.
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Konsole: This is a powerful and full-featured terminal included by default in KDE. It features desktop transparency, background images, profiles, tabs, notifications and plenty schemes to choose from.
GNOME-Terminal: The GNOME terminal, it has support for tabs and desktop transparency, with a clean and simple interface.
Yakuake: A wonderful terminal application for KDE which has the big advantage to stay hidden unless called with F12. It has a style similar with the Quake 3 console or other FPS games. It can use Konsole's settings, including transparency effects and notifications.
Tilda: Tilda is yet another terminal which has a style similar to Quake consoles. I could say it's the GNOME counterpart to Yakuake. When you first start it, you'll be presented with a window to configure it and choose the global shortcut for showing/hiding it.
ROXTerm: ROXTerm is a GTK terminal application with an interface similar to the one of GNOME-Terminal, supporting backgrounds, desktop transparency effects, profiles, colour schemes and many more.
xterm: xterm is the tradition terminal emulator for the X Window System, with a minimal interface. It can be configured using its configuration file.
Eterm: Eterm is a terminal with a futuristic design similar with Enlightenment styles. You will have to run it as Eterm, with capitalised E.
xvt: This is a basic terminal which uses a very small amount of memory, similar to xterm in many ways.
rxvt: It stands for our extended virtual terminal, and it's intended to be a smaller replacement to xterm.
mrxvt: Mrxvt supports tabs and background images while not being memory hungry and not depending on KDE or GNOME libraries.
rxvt-unicode: It features transparency effects, it has scrollbars and support for Unicode characters.
aterm: The AfterStep xvt terminal, aterm is based on xvt and needs less memory than xterm.
wterm: Another lightweight and simplistic terminal emulator which includes scrollbars, background images and transparency.
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I mean, a "consistent" user interface is supposedly everything, and I mean everything in user interface, isn't it? Back when O'Reilly published all the X11 manuals, the Xlib manual claimed that the world did not ever need another window manager. The introduction almost seemed apologetic about the book even existing.
Every dadgum unix vendor used to ship a slightly modified, slightly less than useful xterm modification. "aixterm", "hpterm", whatever that stupid, stupid CDE's stupid, stupid ultra-stupid xterm mod was called. Vendors should never have been allowed to modify xterm.