The publishing progress is shown in the status bar.

As soon as you start publishing, the information appears:

1 scheduled <immediate>

This means the request was sent to the server, and the publishing will start as soon as possible.

When the server begins publishing, the information changes into:

Now publishing (user xxxx minutes:seconds)

The xxxx is your user name, and minutes:seconds are updated periodically.

On publishing complete, a message box appears:

Destination Published. The publish list has been updated.

At the same time, in the status bar appears:

Success

You can double-click it, to get details.

In case of an error, the information:

Error

appears. You can double-click it, to get details.