What is the best graphical terminal/console for Linux?

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Published on 2009-06-16T18:47:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 9:33 UTC
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Well, I'm often tired of the basic functionalities of terminal provided as is when installing a new distribution.

What is the best console in a graphical mode?

For now, all I want to is:

Tabs management
Easy copy/paste ~~(^C/^V support)~~
UTF-8 support
Should be available for both KDE/Gnome environnement

Please be argumentative, don't answer with 'my favorite is' only. Try to tell me why and which features it offers.

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