MAGETWO-44189: Does not work to switch the language in the admin area

 - apply new  style to  the legal section

Author: Dale Sikkema

app/code/Magento/Backend/view/adminhtml/layout/default.xml

@@ -53,14 +53,18 @@
             <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="page.actions.toolbar" template="Magento_Backend::pageactions.phtml" after="-"/>
         </referenceContainer>
         <referenceContainer name="footer">
-            <container name="legal" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="footer-legal col-m-12">
-                <block class="Magento\Backend\Block\Page\Footer" name="version" as="version" />
-                <block class="Magento\Backend\Block\Page\Copyright" name="copyright" as="copyright" />
-                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="report" as="report" template="Magento_Backend::page/report.phtml">
-                    <arguments>
-                        <argument name="bugreport_url" xsi:type="string">https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues</argument>
-                    </arguments>
-                </block>
+            <container name="legal" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="footer-legal">
+                <container name="legal.copyright" htmlTag="p" htmlClass="copyright col-m-6">
+                    <block class="Magento\Backend\Block\Page\Copyright" name="copyright" as="copyright" />
+                </container>
+                <container name="legal.system" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="footer-legal-system col-m-6">
+                    <block class="Magento\Backend\Block\Page\Footer" name="version" as="version" />
+                    <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="report" as="report" template="Magento_Backend::page/report.phtml">
+                        <arguments>
+                            <argument name="bugreport_url" xsi:type="string">https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues</argument>
+                        </arguments>
+                    </block>
+                </container>
             </container>
         </referenceContainer>
         <referenceContainer name="backend.page">

app/code/Magento/Backend/view/adminhtml/templates/page/copyright.phtml

@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@
 // @codingStandardsIgnoreFile
 
 ?>
-<p class="copyright">
-    <a class="link-copyright" href="http://magento.com" target="_blank" title="<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo __('Magento') ?>"></a>
-    <?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo __('Copyright &copy; %1 Magento. All rights reserved.', date('Y')) ?>
-</p>
+<a class="link-copyright" href="http://magento.com" target="_blank" title="<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo __('Magento') ?>"></a>
+<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo __('Copyright &copy; %1 Magento. All rights reserved.', date('Y')) ?>

app/design/adminhtml/Magento/backend/Magento_Backend/web/css/source/module/_footer.less

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 
 //  Copyright
 .copyright {
+    text-align: left;
     margin-bottom: -.2rem;
     position: relative;
     .link-copyright {
@@ -85,15 +86,10 @@
 
 .footer-legal {
     padding-top: 1rem;
-    text-align: right;
 }
 
-//  Locale switcher
-.locale-switcher {
-    .label {
-        display: block;
-        margin-bottom: 1rem;
-    }
+.footer-legal-system {
+    text-align: right;
 }
 
 //