Remove minimize/maximize buttons across all portlets

Question

Is there a way to remove all minimize, maximize, and refresh buttons from all portlets across the entire portal?
I'd also like to somehow force the maximizing of all portlets. This will help get around the problem with all those people who have minimized and will no longer have a way to maximize those portlets after removing their ability to minimize.
Thank you for you help in advance.
tomS.

Answer 1

I found it!
In my Portal Customization 1 class manuals under the Adaptive styles section; it mentions the portletCollapseButton CSS style tag.
What's even better, is that you can set how these buttons are displayed globally, by community, by page, and/or by portlet.
Modify this file to make immediate changes
...\ptimages\imageserver\plumtree\common\public\css\mainstyle-en.css
Modify this file to use CSSMill to make changes:
...\ptimages\tools\cssmill\templates\portal60.template
Here are some exaples of how you can manage the display of the collapse/refresh buttons on your portlet title bars:
     Example: Hide collapse button for the portlet whose id=6 on the page whose id=1.
#pt-page-1 #pt-portlet-6 .portletCollapseButton
     display: none;
     Example: Disallow collapsing of portlets by user="guest".
.ptPageUser-guest .portletCollapseButton
     display: none;
     Example: Disable collapse buttons on all portlets for the community whose id=200.
.ptCommunity-200 .portletCollapseButton
     display: none;
You can do the same with the other buttons as well:
.portletCollapseButton
.portletHelpButton
.portletPrefsButton
.portletRefreshButton
.portletTitle (for the whole title)
I hope this helps someone else out there.