Need to be able to add default favicon.

[ghost]

It's a nice feature that you've already implemented the favicon (from "General Settings".) Whenever someone uploads an image, it shows up as favicon. However, there's currently no way of adding a default favicon, which will be shown whenever the theme is activated.

Hard coding the favicon isn't helping.

[codexpert]

You can always add favicon the traditional way. place favicon.ico file inside your theme and browser automatically pull that. If that doesn't we can do that later :)