diff --git a/src/core/prefs.c b/src/core/prefs.c
index 9d01d00f9..ebba39d15 100644
--- a/src/core/prefs.c
+++ b/src/core/prefs.c
@@ -1187,7 +1187,6 @@ settings_changed (GSettings *settings,
     {
       /* Unknown preference type. This quite likely simply isn't
        * a preference we track changes to. */
-      return;
     }
 
   g_variant_unref (value);