diff --git a/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp b/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp
index 9602fb8ac6..5214f47dc8 100644
--- a/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp
+++ b/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac@googlemail.com>
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
  */
@@ -11,6 +12,10 @@
 PlacesView::PlacesView(QGraphicsWidget* parent) :
     KStandardItemListView(parent)
 {
+    KItemListStyleOption option = styleOption();
+    option.padding = 4;
+    setStyleOption(option);
+
     const int iconSize = PlacesPanelSettings::iconSize();
     if (iconSize >= 0) {
         setIconSize(iconSize);
@@ -26,7 +31,6 @@ void PlacesView::setIconSize(int size)
 
         KItemListStyleOption option = styleOption();
         option.iconSize = size;
-        option.padding = 4;
         setStyleOption(option);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/search/dolphinfacetswidget.cpp b/src/search/dolphinfacetswidget.cpp
index d52d146a8d..db53d595fa 100644
--- a/src/search/dolphinfacetswidget.cpp
+++ b/src/search/dolphinfacetswidget.cpp
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "dolphinfacetswidget.h"
 
 #include <KLocalizedString>
+#include <KProtocolInfo>
 
 #include <QComboBox>
 #include <QDate>
@@ -257,7 +258,9 @@ void DolphinFacetsWidget::updateTagsSelector()
 void DolphinFacetsWidget::updateTagsMenu()
 {
     updateTagsMenuItems({}, {});
-    m_tagsLister.openUrl(QUrl(QStringLiteral("tags:/")), KCoreDirLister::OpenUrlFlag::Reload);
+    if (KProtocolInfo::isKnownProtocol(QStringLiteral("tags"))) {
+        m_tagsLister.openUrl(QUrl(QStringLiteral("tags:/")), KCoreDirLister::OpenUrlFlag::Reload);
+    }
 }
 
 void DolphinFacetsWidget::updateTagsMenuItems(const QUrl&, const KFileItemList& items)