UIManager: Minor code cleanup (#9641)

* Remove a check made redundant by #9617
* Bump base (https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/pull/1538)

base

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 37506f4d552e9ccf2f6c0f71afe925c3ffd9abd2
+Subproject commit fc31b4d98bb267946a3080e07f1a0f8d50dfa2a3

frontend/ui/uimanager.lua

@@ -760,11 +760,6 @@ which itself will take care of propagating an event to its members.
 @param event an @{ui.event.Event|Event} object
 ]]
 function UIManager:sendEvent(event)
-    if not self._window_stack[1] then
-        -- No widgets in the stack!
-        return
-    end
-
     local top_widget
     local checked_widgets = {}
     -- Toast widgets, which, by contract, must be at the top of the window stack, never stop event propagation.