This is a UI issue -- not a bug per se.
We need a compile dialog. When you hit Compile, it is
unclear when compile has started/finished -- the only
change may be in the status line, which is tiny and
unclear. It doesn't show the progress, and if you
click somewhere after beginning the compile, you won't
even see a clear "Compilation successful" in the status
bar -- it could just as easily have been an old
"Compilation successful" from a compile you made an
hour ago or from the last one you did.
ox-eater, if you tell me to appropriate class in the
code to show/hide this dialog from, then I'll make the
dialog.