diff --git a/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp b/src/panels/places/placesview.cpp
index 9602fb8ac..5214f47dc 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);
     }
 }