Unwanted focusing of menu items

[mikaelharsjo]

Description

      <paper-menu-button>
        <paper-icon-button icon="settings" class="dropdown-trigger"></paper-icon-button>
        <paper-menu>
          <paper-item>About</paper-item>
          <paper-item>Help</paper-item>
        </paper-menu>
      </paper-menu-button>

When the menu is opened via click and nothing is selected the first item is always focused.
In my opinion this is rarely how dropdown-menus work.
Just check https://material.google.com/components/buttons.html#buttons-dropdown-buttons or click any menu in Chrome. I would expect nothing to be focused and when you arrow down the first gets focus.

Can this at least be an option, like auto-focus or something?

[soygul]

Seems like this was a deliberate choice: https://github.com/PolymerElements/iron-menu-behavior/blob/master/iron-menu-behavior.html#L301

// focus the selected item when the menu receives focus, or the first item
// if no item is selected
var selectedItem = this.multi ? (this.selectedItems && this.selectedItems[0]) : this.selectedItem;

Pretty much old school Norton Commander like behavior. Not sure if it's valid for webapps though.